{"id":199,"date":"2011-09-21T00:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T00:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-09-22T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:23:54","slug":"awilo-accosted-by-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/awilo-accosted-by-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Awilo accosted by Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star Africa reports that captain and long serving defender, Julius Owino &#8220;Awilo&#8221; , was attacked by fans at the clubs training ground at Moi Forces academy and escaped narrowly<\/p>\n<div class=\"newscontent\">\n<div class=\"yiv190138581gmail_quote\">The \u2018hooligans\u201d whom Awilo claimed they are familiar attacked him accusing him of bringing \u2018bad omen\u201d to the team whenever he travels to upcountry.<\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv190138581MsoNormal\">Awilo was saved by the club team Cameroonian born Assistant coach \u00a0Anaba Awono and team Doctor Sam Ogutu who shielded him from further punishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv190138581MsoNormal\">Awilo said on phone that he has always remained faithful to the club adding that his accusers should know that he is among the least paid players in the club and has never complained since he loves the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv190138581MsoNormal\">\u201cThey accused me, added Awilo, for fictitious issues that does not exist in my mind.I have never gone behind the club to do anything harmful to the team. My life has centred on this great and glamour team.I fail to understand why I should be blamed for the team\u2019s dismal performance. Before I went to upcountry, I even informed the club management including our chairman Ambrose Rachier. It pains me that during my absence,I am blamed for the team\u2019s \u00a0debacle.\u2019 noted Awilo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv190138581MsoNormal\">\u2018I\u2019m the most affected\u00a0 player,added Awilo, when\u00a0 the team loose a match.I sacrifice a lot for the club.I have remained loyal\u00a0 to the team.I\u2019m deeply affected by the recent action since I don\u2019t know\u00a0 what will happen\u00a0 to me tomorrow\u2019 said he.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv190138581MsoNormal\">\u00a0Awilo who is perhaps the longest serving player in the team said he never reported the matter to the police since there are proper mechanism to follow in the club. \u201cI have informed the club management about the incident so that they can follow it up.I know some of the scouts who attacked me and truly, I believe the truth will come out\u2019 Observed Awilo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv190138581MsoNormal\">\u00a0The team\u2019s latest performance has raised eyebrows .The club technical bench led by head coach Zedekiah:\u201dZico\u2019Otieno has been summoned to appear before the club\u2019s executive on Tuesday September 20 to explain the team\u2019s poor performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This sad episode is in poor taste for a player like Awilo who has shown great loyalty to the club and played for the club when it was in the doldrums.<\/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\/awilo-accosted-by-fans\/\"\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>Star Africa reports that captain and long serving defender, Julius Owino &#8220;Awilo&#8221; , was attacked by fans at the clubs<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}