{"id":16568,"date":"2020-11-26T03:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T03:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2020-11-26T03:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T03:43:29","slug":"gor-mahia-players-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-players-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia players stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/train-20-Nov.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s plans to travel to Rwanda have yet again been left to the very last minute and the team is now struggling to obtain tickets. If they do, they will arrive only a day before the first leg match against APR of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from goal.com<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan champions are yet to secure travel tickets for their trip to Kigali for the first leg match on Saturday<br \/>\nGor Mahia are stranded in Nairobi and could miss their trip to Kigali to face APR in the preliminary match of the Caf Champions League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Goal can now reveal the team\u2019s plans to travel to Rwanda on Wednesday have hit a snag because they are yet to purchase tickets and test players and officials for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Another source who did not want to be named has told Goal the team can only travel on Friday as there are no flights to Rwanda on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very disappointed and cannot call this my club, the club I love because I fear that the club standards are going down,\u201d said the source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players have not trained today [Wednesday] because they are asking for money, they have not been paid and also even the mandatory test for Covid-19 for the travelling party has not been conducted, I fear APR will beat us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, FKF, CEO Barry Otieno told Goal they are ready to help the clubs secure tickets and travel for the first match in Kigali, but only if they write to them formally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been informed of Gor Mahia\u2019s situation and are ready to cover for the team\u2019s air tickets to Rwanda using funds from FKF Premier League sponsors,\u201d Otieno told Goal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federation\u2019s proposal has been shared with Gor Mahia club officials and we are awaiting feedback from them.\u201d<\/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-players-stranded\/\"\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&#8217;s plans to travel to Rwanda have yet again been left to the very last minute and the team<\/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":[701,178],"class_list":["post-16568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-2021-caf-champions-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-apr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568","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=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16570,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions\/16570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}