{"id":8155,"date":"2016-03-05T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2016-03-05T00:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:43:11","slug":"rachier-ready-to-defend-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/rachier-ready-to-defend-chairmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachier ready to defend chairmanship as club unveils sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most chairmen with Ambrose Rachier&#8217;s record would be re-elected unopposed. But Rachier will be facing some opposition when the club elections take place at a yet to be disclosed date. Among the people who have been fronted to challenge Rachier are Susan Mboya, wife of Governor Kidero, Chris Omondi who was elected secretary general last time and the ever present Adede who challenged Adede last time. ButRachier is undettered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have unfinished business with this great club and top of my priority is to fight hooliganism. We now have a sponsor and I cannot imagine the same sponsor running away because of hooligans. I can assure you that the issue of hooliganism will be a thing of the past when I return to office for another term&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rachier was speaking at the unveiling of the kit sponsor puma and the shirt sponsor Sportpesa.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/jerseys-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"538\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakava, Jerim, Raila, Nuttall, Musa Image courtesy of Bonface Osano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event was graced by club legends such as Allan Thigo who challenged the current group of players to live up to the standards expected at the club.<br \/>\n&#8220;In my time we did not have this kind of money yet we still performed well because of our love for the club. Therefore there is no reason why the current players cannot perform well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Club patron Raila Odinga urged companies to emulate sportpesa<br \/>\n&#8220;I want compannies to sponsor community teams instead of starting their own&#8221; said Raila.<\/p>\n<p>Raila also urged the fans to shun hooliganism.<br \/>\n&#8220;Hooliganism is what keeps sponsors away.<\/p>\n<p>Sportpesa CEO Ronald Karauri urged fans to shun hooliganism<br \/>\n&#8220;It is not up to fans to take action when they disagree with a referee&#8217;s decision. It is up to the officials&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rachier for his part promised to end hooliganism.<\/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\/rachier-ready-to-defend-chairmanship\/\"\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>Most chairmen with Ambrose Rachier&#8217;s record would be re-elected unopposed. But Rachier will be facing some opposition when the club<\/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-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}