Gor Mahia Chairman Breaks His Silence Following Widespread Criticism Over Airport Horror

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Photo’s of Gor Mahia players apparently stranded at an airport and sleeping on the floor have led to widespread criticism of the Gor Mahia management by a number of football lovers across the Country.

Kogallo has once again become a laughing stock in the continent with many people wondering how a club that has enjoyed great success like Gor Mahia can have it’s players subjected to the kind of humiliation they have been subjected to.

Well, the man at the Center of it all, Ambrose Rachier, the Gor Mahia Chairman has finally spoken on a number of issues ahead of Kogallo’s crunch tie against Morocco’s RS Berkane.

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The main challenge for Gor Mahia, according to Rachier is that the club is struggling financially. Rachier has said that Proceeds from main sponsors SportPesa is only enough to cater for salaries of the playing staff and technical bench.

He adds that club’s gate takings have dwindled following closure of stadia in Nairobi for government commissioned renovations. His office now receives as low as $110 in some ‘home’ league matches.

Monies received from Caf in 2019, Rachier says, is $130,000. Gor Mahia has so far travelled to Blantyre, Douala, Abuja, Cairo, Algiers,, Luanda (Angola) and now Berkane for continental assignments at an average cost of $700,000.

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With this background, the Kenyan champions officially requested the government to offer them air tickets to Berkane. These tickets arrived late, two days to the game. Worse, the initially booked Kenya Airways plane for the team developed Mechanical problems.

Plan ‘B’ had to be mooted. It included ferrying the players to Berkane in four batches. Two batches travelled via Doha, Qatar, another batch through France and yet another group navigated through Dubai.

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Rachier says the players sending photos from the airport lounge in Doha are ‘naughty’ and ‘mischevious’. The chairman says he personally endured an eight hour lay off at one of the airports enroute to Berkane

Rachier adds that he can’t guarantee all his players will be available for tonight’s game versus Berkane OWING to flight complications. This is a game the Kenyan team needs to win by three clear goals to advance to the semis of the Caf Confederation Cup.

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