{"id":3440,"date":"2013-12-16T16:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2014-02-06T02:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T02:57:57","slug":"gor-mahia-to-face-us-bitam-of-gabon-in-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-face-us-bitam-of-gabon-in-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia to face US Bitam of Gabon in ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/shinguardian.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/caf_champions_league.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike last year when Gor Mahia was handed an easy preliminary round match against Anse Re-Union of Seychelles, Gor Mahia will face much tougher opposition this time around in the form of US Bitam of Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the draw released on Monday, GOtv Shield winners AFC Leopards\u2019 will face Defence of Ethiopia in the Confederation Cup. The draw for the 18th edition of the Orange CAF Champions League 2014 was held on Monday, December 16, 2013 in Marrakech, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Should Gor Mahia beat US Bitam, they will face Esperance of Tunisia in what will be a rematch of the epic enocunter between the two teams in 1987 when Gor Mahia beat Esperance in the finals of the Africa cup winners cup. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then: Esperance has since become one of the best teams in Africa even winning the champions league while Gor Mahia are only now recovering from a near death experience.<\/p>\n<p>The match against Bitam will mark the first time Gor Mahia has played against Gabonese opposition. Previously, Tusker, then known as Kenya Breweries, beat Mbilinga of Gabon in the semi-finals of the 1994 Africa cup winners cup.<\/p>\n<p>Union Sportive Bitam is\u00a0 based in Bitam called the three borders because of the proximity with Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. Indeeed some of the teams players are from Cameroun.<\/p>\n<p>The club is chaired by Magloire Ndemezo&#8217;o . The main sponsor\/Patron is the former Minister of Youth, Sport and Recreation at the last African Cup in Gabon and member of the Common Bitam Ren\u00e9 Ndemezo&#8217;obiang .<\/p>\n<p>The good news for Gor Mahia is that the track record of US Bitam is not that impressive. In three attempts, they have not gone beyond the first round of the Africa champions league. However their performance in the first round against Nigerian giants Enyimba was somewhat impressive. They lost only 1-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The first leg will be played between February 7th and 9th in Nairobi with the return leg to be played 2 weeks later.<\/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-to-face-us-bitam-of-gabon-in-acl\/\"\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>Unlike last year when Gor Mahia was handed an easy preliminary round match against Anse Re-Union of Seychelles, Gor Mahia<\/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-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","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=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}