{"id":3915,"date":"2014-02-12T02:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","slug":"gor-mahia-leave-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-leave-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia leave on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/caf-champs.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<br \/>\nThe team of 18 players and 10 officials will depart Jomo Kenyatta Airport at 11:30 am where they will connect to Libreville, Gabon from Kigali, Rwanda<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s representatives in Caf Champions League Gor Mahia leave the country on Thursday for Libreville, Gabon, ahead of their return leg match against US Bitam slated for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The team of 18 players and 10 officials will depart Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 11:30 am where they will connect to Libreville from Kigali, Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have finalized our travel arrangements for the return match and it is now official that the team will travel on Thursday morning. The technical bench and playing unit are upbeat for the return duel and we are hoping for good results,\u201d vice secretary Ronald Ngala told Goal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia travel to Gabon with a slim 1-0 lead from the first leg match played in Nairobi last weekend. Bitam Coach Omam Biyik is confident that his side will do well at home and frustrate Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to come off the first leg with a barren draw and finish the job at home. However, losing 0-1 is not that bad as I feel we can overturn the result. Coming here, we wanted to see how Gor Mahia play then plan on how we will tackle them at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biyik however, took issues with Saturday\u2019s match referee claiming that the penalty awarded to Gor Mahia which Dan Sserunkuma converted for the lone goal, was unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The referee made some decisions which were questionable like the one of awarding a penalty to Gor Mahia. It does not discourage us however, because we understand that there is still a chance for us to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biyik said his team did not have three of their key players and believes their presence in the return match will make all the difference. &#8220;We did not have a key defender, midfielder and striker but they will be available in the return match. They will certainly make a difference in the return fixture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bitam players celebrated widely after the final whistle despite losing as well as signaling to Gor Mahia fans that \u2018they will complete the job in Gabon.\u2019<\/p>\n<h4>Squad to Gabon<\/h4>\n<p>Goalkeepers: Jerim Onyango, David Juma<\/p>\n<div>Defenders: Godfrey Walusimbi, Musa Mohammed, David Owino, Haron Shakava, Solomon Nasio, Israel Emuge<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Midfielders: Baba Kizito, Teddy Akumu, Shaban Kenga, Daniel Onyango, Innocent Mutiso, Eric Ochieng<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Strikers: Danny Sserunkuma, Jared Obwoge, Rama Salim, George Odhiambo<\/div>\n<h3>Branch meeting to discuss Hooliganism<\/h3>\n<p>courtesy of the Standard<\/p>\n<div>Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia FC have called for an all branches crisis meeting today at Nyayo National Stadium from 5:00pm to outline measures to curb hooliganism. \u201cAs a club we have received communication from the league\u2019s governing council and we want to inform all our members of the new regulations so that they know the repercussions of unruly behaviour,\u201d Gor\u2019s Organising Secretary David Kilo told FeverPitch.<\/p>\n<div>Gor have on many occasions been either fined orbanned by the league\u2019s judicial body, the Independent Disciplinary and Complaints Committee (IDCC). KPL CEO Jack Oguda last Saturday released a Press statement giving IDCC powers to dock points from club\u2019s whose fans perpetuate hooliganism. Oguda\u2019s communiqu\u00e9 said that KPL Governing council \u201cApproved the docking of points from the League standings by the Independent Disciplinary and Complaints Committee for any club found culpable of causing an abandonment of matches due to acts of hooliganism and crowd trouble.\u201d Maintain order Kilo said: \u201cWe want to work hand in hand with the law enforcers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The branches will be charged with the responsibility of ensuring that their members maintain law and order in the stadium,\u201d explained Kilo saying that the new plan will see all Gor fans sit according to branches in the stadia stands as the club seeks the hand of the National Authority for Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) \u201cWe are going to meet with NACADA chair John Mututho to negotiate on various formulae that will ensure that we keep all our matches free from alcohol and drunken behavior. If possible, we wouldn\u2019t mind using the controversial Alco-blow,\u201d added Kilo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\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-leave-on-thursday\/\"\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>courtesy of goal.com The team of 18 players and 10 officials will depart Jomo Kenyatta Airport at 11:30 am where<\/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-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","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=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}