{"id":8520,"date":"2016-05-29T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T01:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2016-05-29T03:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T03:21:52","slug":"zablon-otieno-pro-receives-a-heroic-sendoff-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/zablon-otieno-pro-receives-a-heroic-sendoff-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Zablon Otieno Pro receives a heroic sendoff (In Pictures)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Gor Mahia midfield ace Zablon Otieno pro, later known as &#8220;Coaches&#8221; was laid to rest at his ancestral home in Alego. The prayer session at St. Stephens church on Jogoo road was very well attended as was the funeral. Gor Mahia fans raised Ksh 250,000 to defray funeral expenses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zablon\/pro-funeral.jpg\" width=\"552\" height=\"736\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casket leaving his home in Kaloleni carried by among others Famous coach Ezekiel Akwana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zablon\/pro-funeral2.jpg\" width=\"552\" height=\"736\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A service was held at St Stephens Jogoo road on Thursday evening. The church was completely full<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zablon\/jerim-zab-funeral.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In attendance at Alego was current Kogalo skipper Jerim Onyango, a former team-mate and friend of coaches. <br \/> Images courtesy of Owen Smart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zablon\/jaro-zab-funeral.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In attendance in Alego was super fan Jaro Soja. <br \/> Images courtesy of Owen Smart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 792px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zablon\/youth-carry-zab.jpg\" width=\"792\" height=\"594\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Gor Mahia Youth team that Pro coached were in attendance in Alego Ngiya. <br \/>Youth team images courtesy of Collo Kwala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zablon\/youth-carry-zab2.jpg\" width=\"796\" height=\"796\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zablon\/youth-carry-zab3.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/zablon-otieno-pro-receives-a-heroic-sendoff-in-pictures\/\"\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>Former Gor Mahia midfield ace Zablon Otieno pro, later known as &#8220;Coaches&#8221; was laid to rest at his ancestral home<\/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":[251,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520","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=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8525,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}