{"id":9554,"date":"2017-04-17T02:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2017-04-27T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:26:21","slug":"remembering-zack-mbori-a-legendary-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/remembering-zack-mbori-a-legendary-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Zack Mbori a legendary Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mbori-prof.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/mbori\/mbori-1.jpg\" width=\"659\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/karume.jpg\" width=\"696\" height=\"446\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zack Mbori pictured here with Kenneth Matiba during a fundraiser for the club in the mid 1970s. In the front row are club chairman Peter Anyumba, and Cabinet Minister Njenga Karume who was the guest of honour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/mbori\/mbori-2.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/mbori\/mbori-3.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/before-cecafa85.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mbori receiving football boots donated by Re-Union Chairman Wycliff Rading Omollo before the 1985 CECAFA cup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/mbori\/mbori-4.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Personal Life<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/articles\/mbori\/mbori-5.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Remembering Zack Mbori in Pictures<\/h3>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mbori-cecafa.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mbori holding the 1985 CECAFA cup after Kogalo beat Ingwe 2-0 in the final.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mbori-sambu2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mbori addressing the media with the then AFC Chairman Alfred Sambu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mbori-sambu.jpg\" width=\"663\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mbori-election.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"234\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mbori and his supporters during the 1984 club elections. In those days elections were held mlolongo style.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mbori-misiga.jpg\" width=\"651\" height=\"474\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contestant Luke Misiga who had been a member of the club&#8217;s governing council, congratulates Mbori after the election. Misiga would later claim the election was rigged to favor Mbori.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/obwaka-breakdance-mbori.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"797\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mbori with players William Obwaka and Ben Oloo &#8220;Breakdance&#8221; in 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\/remembering-zack-mbori-a-legendary-chairman\/\"\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>Personal Life Remembering Zack Mbori in Pictures &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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":[118,495],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-chairman","tag-zack-mbori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","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=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9564,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/9564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}