Thirty years ago, Gor Mahia won the Cecafa East and Central Africa Club Cup for the third and last time. They beat their compatriots, AFC Leopards 2-0 in an all-Kenya final in Khartoum. Two years later, they would scale even greater heights, reaching the pinnacle of African football with victory in the Nelson Mandela Africa Cup Winners Cup. As a reporter during those momentous times – and even earlier than that – I was a witness to the promise of Kenyan football. I was the privileged bystander who saw the potential of Gor Mahia whose players bewitched us with a…
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The football season is finally here. So much has been said about the performance of both Ingwe and K’Ogalo during the just-concluded Kenya Power Charity Cup tournament. From my own assessment, K’Ogalo will still perform better than Ingwe as usual. Tripple that with a home and away thumping and November will have come early for the ever fading perennial rivals. Hold your fire Ingwe fans! I can explain with facts. After signing the likes of Joseph Shikokoti, James Situma, KPL Player of the Year Jacob Keli and luring back to the KPL Ugandan midfielder Musa Mudde, most Ingwe fans expected…
Coach Oman Biyik tells Goal that they are in Nairobi to get maximum points against the Kenyan league champions in Saturday’s Champions League fixture Former Cameroonian international Oman Biyik, who handles US Bitam, Gor Mahia’s opponents in Champions League on Saturday, has warned the Kenyan champions to score early goals or they will be in trouble. Biyik predicted that Gor Mahia fans will turn against their own team if there will be no goals in the first 20 minutes of the match. “I understand the mind set of most home fans. They normally expect an early goal and if it…
The Independent Disputes and Disciplinary Committee’s ruling to have Gor Mahia play one home match behind closed doors as punishment; following fans trouble in the derby match against perennial rivals Afc Leopards in May will face official protest from the club. According to club Secretary General George Bwana, the IDDC ruling is unfair to Gor Mahia and an appeal will be tabled to Football Kenya Federation seeking for a revoke. “We are not going to serve the empty stadium ban as ruled by IDDC. Gor Mahia was not the home team during the derby match and providing match security was…
We delivered over the weekend. Was it pretty? Was it nerve racking? Was it Gor Mahia? YES! It had elements of what we are and what we could be, those elements that continue to puzzle us all. It’s not easy being a Gor Mahia supporter It provides its fair share of pain and much joy. Of course we want the Club to win every game, every player to place pin point passes, make every shot on target and every decision to be spot on. And the Croat must be perfect! If that were the case the game would be boring.…