{"id":16615,"date":"2020-12-08T02:55:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2020-12-08T02:55:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:55:40","slug":"who-are-cr-belouizdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/who-are-cr-belouizdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are CR Belouizdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/tuyisenge-momanyi-ondiek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"421\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defender Charles Momanyi and Bernard Ondiek tussle with Jacque Tuyisenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having beaten APR of Rwanda 4-3 on aggregate, Gor Mahia will now face off with Algerian representatives Chabab Riadhi de Belouizdad. The first leg will be played during the week of December 22.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning Algerian champions beat Al Nasr of Libya, 4-0 on aggregate, winning both home and away legs by a score of 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Libyan side were at a huge disadvantage. Firstly there has not been an active Libyan league for two seasons due to the civil war. Thus the Libyans were short on match practise. Secondly the Libyans had to play their home leg away in Cairo, Egypt rather than in their home-ground of Benghazi. The goals in Cairo were scored by Algerian Shaib Kaddad while the second goal was an own goal by an Al Nasr player.<\/p>\n<p>CR Belouizidad are based in the Belouizidad section of Algiers and play their home games in the Stade 20 Ao\u00fbt 1955.<\/p>\n<p>CR Belouizidad were declared champions of the 2019-2020 seasons when the Algerian league was suspended due to Covid 19. At the time, they were leading the league with 40 points from 11 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses. Their most famous win a 3-0 victory over perennial giants JS Kabylie. It was their 7th Algerian league title with the previous one having coming in the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Their squad comprises entirely of Algerians with the exceptions being Benin international Marcellin Koukpo and Belgian international Maecky Ngombo.<\/p>\n<p>The first time faced off with an Algerian side, it was under coach Dylan Kerr in May 2018. They recorded a 0-0 draw in Nairobi before losing 2-1 in Algiers. In February 2019 under Hassan Oktay, Gor Mahia recorded a memorable 2-0 win over NA Hussein Dey before losingf controversially 1-0 in Algiers. The last encounter with an Algerian side was a disaster. In September 2019, Gor Mahia went down 4-1 to USM Alger in Algiers before losing 2-0 in Nairobi to USM Alger.<\/p>\n<h2>Gor Mahia seeking assistance from fans<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/finances-12-2020.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile club treasurer Dolfina Odhiambo is asking fans to pitch in and help the club financially. She says this is largely due to the lack of gate proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need all your support,\u201d Odhiambo wrote on her social media pages. \u201cK\u2019Ogalo lovers, we worked so hard to have KBC air Gor Mahia vs APR match, I hope you did not just watch for free but sent at least a VIP ticket amount on the club paybill for tickets and membership 350100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[VIP is normally Ksh500 while VVIP is Ksh1000), may we kindly motivate the boys, the money will go a long way to clear their salary arrears bearing in mind we can&#8217;t sell tickets and have attendance in the matches yet.\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\/who-are-cr-belouizdad\/\"\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>Having beaten APR of Rwanda 4-3 on aggregate, Gor Mahia will now face off with Algerian representatives Chabab Riadhi de<\/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":[701,704],"class_list":["post-16615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-2021-caf-champions-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-cr-belouizidad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615","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=16615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16619,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions\/16619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}