{"id":17549,"date":"2022-12-16T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=17549"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:31:07","slug":"allan-thigo-the-high-priest-of-gor-mahia-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/allan-thigo-the-high-priest-of-gor-mahia-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Thigo: The High Priest of Gor Mahia FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Muroro Pacho<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/thigo\/thigo1.jpg\" width=\"956\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/thigo\/thigo2.jpg\" width=\"977\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 729px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/thigo-abbas-chege.jpg\" width=\"729\" height=\"519\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thigo remained a stalwart of the national team until the early 1980s. He is seen here on a visit to Seychelles with Harambee Stars. Also in the picture are Aggrey Lukoye William Ouma &#8220;Chege&#8221;, Simon Gundi and a young Mahmoud Abbas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>1974: Thigo stabilizes the ship after the mass exodus<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/thigo\/thigo3-1974.jpg\" width=\"996\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 751px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/thigo-kadir.JPG\" width=\"751\" height=\"471\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thigo introduces team-mate defender James Ogolla Kadir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>1976: Thigo leads Gor Mahia to an unbeaten league title as player coach<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/thigo\/thigo4-1976.jpg\" width=\"996\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>1979: Thigo Leads Gor Mahia to the Africa cup final as player coach<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/thigo\/thigo5-1979.jpg\" width=\"972\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>1980 and onwards<\/h3>\n<figure style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/solo-ndonga-thigo-obunga.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"540\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thigo&#8217;s last season 1982 with Otieno Solo, Sammy Ndonga and Andrew Obunga, greeting KFF chairman Clement Gachanja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/thigo\/thigo6-1982.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/thigo-wave.jpg\" width=\"678\" height=\"346\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thigo waves to the crowd in 2015 at an event to commemorate winning the league title unbeaten in 1976<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\/allan-thigo-the-high-priest-of-gor-mahia-fc\/\"\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>Story by Muroro Pacho 1974: Thigo stabilizes the ship after the mass exodus 1976: Thigo leads Gor Mahia to an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,710,1],"tags":[45,386,134],"class_list":["post-17549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-gor-mahia-legends","category-news","tag-allan-thigo","tag-gor-mahia-legends","tag-gor-mahia-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549","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=17549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17554,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions\/17554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}