{"id":7101,"date":"2015-07-27T22:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2015-08-01T03:49:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T03:49:57","slug":"when-moreno-batamba-praised-gor-mahia-for-winning-cecafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/when-moreno-batamba-praised-gor-mahia-for-winning-cecafa\/","title":{"rendered":"When Moreno Batamba praised Gor Mahia for winning CECAFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ND44kCvt1K4\" width=\"854\" height=\"510\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1981, famous Congolese musician Wenda Batamba Morris, popularly known by his stage name <strong>Moreno <\/strong>sung a song in praise of Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>This was one among many songs that were composed about Gor Mahia during this period by bands such as congolese band Super Mazembe, the Tanzanian David Owino Misiani as well as local musicans like Juma Toto. But this song was particularly well written and recalled the fact that Gor Mahia had won the league four times had become the first East African team to reach a continental cup final and had recently won the CECAFA club cup.<\/p>\n<p>He urges Kenyans to join in supporting Gor Mahia because it has brought a lot of fame and acclaim to Kenyans<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to name the protagonists who played for Gor Mahia at the time. And what a formidable squad it was. Among the players named is :<\/p>\n<p>Hamisi Shamba<br \/>\nPeter Otieno<br \/>\nGeorge Otieno Solo<br \/>\nMasanta Osoro<br \/>\nBob Ogolla &#8220;Six Million Dollar Man<br \/>\nTim Ayieko<br \/>\nGeorge Otieno &#8220;Vigo&#8221;<br \/>\nAndrew Obunga<br \/>\nMike Ogolla &#8220;Machine&#8221;<br \/>\nGeorge Ayuka<br \/>\nAbdenego Juma<br \/>\nGideon Hamisi<br \/>\nSammy Owino &#8220;Kempes&#8221;<br \/>\nEnock Obwaka<br \/>\nNahashon OLuoch &#8220;Lule&#8221;<br \/>\nAbbey Nassur<br \/>\nGeorge Ayuka<br \/>\nDino Kitavi<br \/>\nPaul Oduwo &#8220;Cobra&#8221;<br \/>\nDan Odhiambo<br \/>\nCharles Ondiek<br \/>\nAllan Thigo<\/p>\n<p>That was the formidable squad that lifted the CECAFA club cup twice.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentions officials<\/p>\n<p>Eunice Odhiambo the original diva who was known as &#8220;Mama Gor&#8221;<br \/>\nTony Odao<br \/>\nOtieno Kola (Vice Chairman)<br \/>\nJasper Okello (Technical Bench)<br \/>\nDavid Opar (Chairman)<br \/>\nFreddy Odundo<br \/>\nDavid Otti (Coach)<br \/>\nDavid Ouma (Team Manager)<br \/>\nJerry Imbo (Player\/assistant coach)<br \/>\nDr. Otieno<\/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\/when-moreno-batamba-praised-gor-mahia-for-winning-cecafa\/\"\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>In 1981, famous Congolese musician Wenda Batamba Morris, popularly known by his stage name Moreno sung a song in praise<\/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":[73,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","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=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}