{"id":4087,"date":"2014-03-04T03:22:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2014-03-04T03:22:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:22:36","slug":"esperance-match-raises-ksh-2-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/esperance-match-raises-ksh-2-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperance match raises Ksh 2.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/fans-esperance-2014.jpg\" width=\"439\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Ksh 2.6 Million was raised from the ticket sales of the CAF Champions League match pitting Kenyan champions Gor Mahia and Tunisian side Esperance.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This has been confirmed by the club\u2019s Secretary-General, Chris Omondi. Each V.I.P section ticket was going for Ksh 1000 while those for the terraces section cost Ksh 200 each.<\/p>\n<p>More could have been raised from the match but cases of fake tickets being sold on some designated ticket selling points were rampant and word has it that some club officials were behind it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hope<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chris, who took over from George Bwana, has in the meantime congratulated the players for putting a solid display against their much fancied opponents.<\/p>\n<p>-They (players) gave a good performance and I salute them. We gifted them three easy goals maybe out of naivety and reckless blunders but outplayed them in every department, Chris told<i> futaa.com,<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>-We are hoping to perform better in the return leg and advance to the next stage, he added.<\/p>\n<h3>Squad for Tunis named<\/h3>\n<p>The Kenyan champions have named their squad to face the North Africans in Sunday&#8217;s decisive Champions League return leg match away in Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will depart for Tunisia in two batches to honor their weekend return first round Champions League match against Esperance.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan champions lost the first leg 3-2 last weekend and have to win by two clear goals to be sure of going through to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch will travel for Tunis on Thursday and will be followed by another group on Friday. The match will be played on Sunday. Those leaving on Thursday include Martin Kimani, who will be the head of delegation, club vice-chairman John Pesa as well as goalkeeper trainer Salim Iddi and several players among them Timonah Wanyonyi, Frederick Otieno, David Otieno and Eric Ochieng.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The final travelling party has<\/strong>: Rama Salim, Patrick Onyango, Musa Mohamed, George &#8216;Blackberry&#8217; Odhiambo, David &#8216;Calabar&#8217; Owino, Innocent Mutiso, Kevin Oluoch, Kevin Omondi, Jerim Onyango, Shakava Haron, Emuge Israel, Kizito Geofrey, Anthony Akumu, Walusimbi Godfrey and Dan Sserunkuma.<\/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\/esperance-match-raises-ksh-2-6-million\/\"\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 futaa.com Ksh 2.6 Million was raised from the ticket sales of the CAF Champions League match pitting Kenyan<\/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-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","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=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}