{"id":15258,"date":"2019-10-11T01:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T01:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15258"},"modified":"2019-10-11T02:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:28:28","slug":"philemon-otieno-struggles-not-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/philemon-otieno-struggles-not-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Philemon Otieno struggles not over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/philemon-kigali-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia defender Philemon Otieno has been left to fend for himself while recovering from his injury as the club is no longer paying him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Report by Nairobi News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia officials are facing accusations of abandoning Philemon Otieno at a time when the player needs the club the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kenyan international defender, who featured prominently for  Harambee Stars at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt (21 June \u2013 19  July), is on the mend after recently undergoing correctional surgery at a  Nairobi hospital to repair his damaged knee ligaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then, sources close to the player say he is now struggling to make ends meet as the club officials have not checked on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither have they paid his salary for the past two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe appears stranded. Nobody (at the club) has called to check on \nhim. We understand the team is facing some financial challenges but the \nplayers have twice in the past month received some stipend from the \nmanagement amounting to Sh42,000 but he (Philemon) was left out,\u201d&nbsp;the \nsource told&nbsp;<em>Nairobi News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been a year to forget for the former Ushuru FC player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He suffered a serious knee injury while playing for Harambee Stars in\n August and for the next six weeks or so, Football Kenya Federation and \nhis club publicly differed on who should foot his treatment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/philemon-otieno-struggles-not-over\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia defender Philemon Otieno has been left to fend for himself while recovering from his injury as the club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[581],"class_list":["post-15258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-philemon-otieno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15261,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions\/15261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}