{"id":15569,"date":"2020-01-15T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15569"},"modified":"2020-02-03T01:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:37:47","slug":"gor-mahia-team-of-the-decade-2000-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-team-of-the-decade-2000-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia team of the decade: 2000-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/decades\/early.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/decades\/early.JPG\" width=\"921\" height=\"596\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. George Odhiambo &#8220;Taffarel: <\/strong>A solid goalkeeper who would often step forward to take penalties.<br \/>\n<strong>2. Francis Akango &#8220;Jakambare&#8221;:<\/strong> A solid no nonsense fullback<br \/>\n<strong>3. Chris Wekesa:<\/strong> A burly fullback whose solid play in 2008 and 2009 saw him called to the national team<br \/>\n<strong>4. Eric Masika &#8220;PPO&#8221;:<\/strong> The youthful Masika was a crowd favourite in 2009<br \/>\n<strong>5. Julius Owino &#8220;Awilo&#8221;:<\/strong> A natural leader who captained club and country<br \/>\n<strong>6. Andrew Oyombe: <\/strong>Effectively shielded the defence and featured prominently for the national team and also played in Europe<br \/>\n<strong>7. Kenneth Omondi:<\/strong> Was voted Transparency cup MVP in 2005<br \/>\n<strong>8. Zablon Otieno &#8220;Pro&#8221;:<\/strong> Skillful left footed midfielder who was a brilliant playmaker.<br \/>\n<strong>9. Emmanuel Wakata: <\/strong>A free scoring attacker who later played in Rwanda<br \/>\n<strong>10 George Odhiambo &#8220;Blackberry&#8221;:<\/strong> His best years were between 2008 and 2010 when he was league MVP<br \/>\n<strong>11. Habil Otieno:<\/strong> An effective goal poacher who scored often from half chances.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/decades\/early-lineup.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"725\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Substitutes<\/h3>\n<p>Jacktone Odhiambo<br \/>\nCharles Odipo<br \/>\nPatrick Oyiengo &#8220;Adesh&#8221;,<\/p>\n<h3>Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n<p>Jimmy Bagaye, Robert Oluoko, Charles Odipo, Dan Onyango, Tony Onyango, Andrew Ongwae, Tom Odundo, Charles Ojwang, Nathan Munai, Steve Biko, Sylvanus Onyango, Bramwel Karamoja, Ibrahim Kitawi, Duncan Owiti &#8220;Macheda&#8221;, Stephen Ochola, Elisha Ochieno &#8220;Achach&#8221;, John Kiplagat<\/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\/gor-mahia-team-of-the-decade-2000-2009\/\"\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>1. George Odhiambo &#8220;Taffarel: A solid goalkeeper who would often step forward to take penalties. 2. Francis Akango &#8220;Jakambare&#8221;: A<\/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":[73,1],"tags":[386,134],"class_list":["post-15569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-legends","tag-gor-mahia-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15569","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=15569"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15594,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15569\/revisions\/15594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}