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Gor Mahia coach Hasan Oktay has been granted leave and will travel back to the UK on Tuesday to attend to family matters. “Our Head Coach Hassan Oktay has been granted leave by the club to attend to family matters at home. He will be flying out tomorrow and will join the team once he’s back,” a club statement reads. Speaking to Kahawa Tungu this evening, the Turkish Cypriot, assured he will return after seven or so days. Oktay, who won the Kenyan Premier League and reached the CAF Confederation Cup quarters on his debut season, added that he is…

Gor Mahia new signing Frincis Afriyie arrived in the country on Monday morning, Kahawa Tungu can confirm. The Ghanaian was picked at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by one of K’Ogalo’s security personnel. Afriyie, 24, penned a two-year-deal to join the record 18-time Kenyan Premier League champions ahead of a busy season starting in August. Read: Ex-Liverpool Forward Peter Crouch Hangs Boots At 38 The former Murciélagos FC (Mexico) and Bechem United (Ghana) marksman has already been registered for both domestic and international competitions. Apart from defending their KPL crown, Gor Mahia will also be representing Kenya in the African…

Football Kenya Federation has moved to subsidize ticket prices for Sunday’s Africa Nations Championships Qualifier against Tanzania. Fans will now gain all-round access to the stadium for only Ksh100, with the match set to kick off at 4 pm at the MISC Kasarani. Kenya held the Taifa Stars to a barren draw in Dar es Salaam, and there now is all to play for in the second leg. Read: Kenya Morans Settle For Silver After Losing To DR Congo in The AfroCan Championship The winner on aggregate will face off with Sudan in the second and final qualifying round. The…

Harambee Stars held Tanzania to barren draw in the first leg encounter of the 2020 CHAN qualifier match played on Sunday in Dar Es Salaam. https://twitter.com/Football_Kenya/status/1155492975566368768?s=19 Kenya will stage the second leg on Sunday at the Kasarani Stadium with the aggregate winner booking a date with Sudan in final phase of the qualifiers. Championship of Africa Nations (CHAN) is played strictly by home-based professionals. Read: AFCON 2019 – Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez Guides Algeria Past Kenya The next edition of the continental showpiece will take place in Cameroon next year. Kenya like Tanzania have never qualified for the biennial tournament…

Sadio Mané is a Liverpool hero but back at home in Senegal he is something more than that. Fresh from guiding the Teranga Lions to the final of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, Mané once again proved he is a people’s champion, heading to his place of birth Bambali to inspect construction of a school, one of many projects he is funding. Mané has also delivered a hospital and a mosque to his people as a give back initiative. The winger, who is still on vacation after the continental campaign, is expected to rejoin Liverpool for preseason…

Diego Costa scored four goals and was sent off as Atlético Madrid thrashed Real Madrid 7-3 in their International Champions Cup friendly in New Jersey. Dani Carvajal was dismissed alongside Costa after a second-half melee as Zinedine Zidane’s pre-season problems intensified. Real were 5-0 down at half-time to their local rivals at the MetLife Stadium as Costa and new Atlético signing João Félix ran riot. Zidane included new signings Eden Hazard and Luka Jovic in a strong starting line-up, but his side were behind in the first minute, Félix setting up Costa whose deflected shot beat Thibaut Courtois. Félix, signed…

From the look of things record Kenyan champions Gor Mahia are not ready to handover their Kenyan Premier League title next season. In a bid to defend the crown, which they won for the third time on the trot last season, K’Ogalo have further strengthened their squad by signing Ghanaian Francis Afriyie. The 24-year-old forward, who is expected in Nairobi on Sunday before the team begins second leg of their preseason outside the capital, has reportedly penned a two-year deal. Read: Eden Hazard Pens Emotional Farewell Message To Chelsea As He Leaves For Real Madrid Afriyie is joining K’Ogalo from…

Sead Kolasinac fought off knife-wielding thugs who tried to attack him and Mesut Ozil. Bosnian Kolasinac took on the thugs with his bare hands after jumping out of Ozil’s car to challenge them in North London Sead Kolasinac tried to fight off a knife-wielding man who attempted to attack him and Arsenal teammate Mesut Ozil. Read: Turkish Club Malatyaspor Wear Mesut Ozil T-shirts In Support Against Racism Unbelievable footage emerged on Thursday evening of Kolasinac stepping out of a car – believed to be Ozil’s – to fight with the individual holding a weapon. He then engaged with another man who was…

Eighteen-time Kenyan champions Gor Mahia have added firepower to their attack ahead of the 2018/2019 season by roping in Ivorian hit man Gislein Yikpe Gnamian. The twenty three-year-old who featured for Sporting Club Gagnoa in the Ivory Coast top-flight division is deemed a like for like replacement for Jacques Tuyisenge who transferred to Angolan outfit Petro Atletico at the close of last season. Gnamian will vie for places with Nicholas Kipkirui, Dennis Oalo, Dickson Ambundo and other forwards in the squad when K’Ogalo launch their hunt for a 19th league crown and a place in the coveted CAF Champions league…

Harambee Stars coach Sébastien Migné has named the final squad set to jet out to Dar es Salaam for the first leg of their Africa Nations Championships Qualifier against Tanzania. Johnstone Omurwa, who was called up to the team in midweek, has made it to the final squad, as has Wazito’s Musa Masika, who will be looking forward to making his senior debut. Dennis Odhiambo, meanwhile, has been named captain. Read: CS Sports Amina Mohamed Hosts Harambee Stars To Luncheon, Thanks Them For Afcon Show The team jets out to Tanzania on Saturday ahead of the first leg set to…

Francis Kimanzi has stepped down as Mathare United coach after four seasons in charge to focus on his new post as the Harambee Stars assistant coach, the club has confirmed. Salim Ali, who was his assistant, has been elevated to takeover the role with immediate effect ahead of the new Kenyan Premier League season kicking off next month. “Ali, who has been serving as assistant coach for the last four seasons, takes over from Francis Kimanzi who has stepped aside to focus on his position at the national football team, Harambee Stars,” a club statement reads. Email your news TIPS…

Kenya’s senior men’s national team, the Harambee Stars, has dropped two places to position 107 in the latest FIFA ranking released on Thursday. Stars failed to go past the group stage in the just concluded Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt. The team managed a single win against neighbors Tanzania and lost twice against eventual champions Algeria and runners-up Senegal in Group C. Read: Kenya Basketball Team “The Morans” Make Courtesy Call To Raila Odinga Despite losing the 2019 AFCON final to Algeria’s Fennecs, Terenga Lions of Senegal remains the best ranked African team moving up two places to…

Antoine Griezmann’s move to Barcelona could be blocked in a row over the fee, La Liga president Javier Tebas says. Atletico Madrid complained after Barca announced they had signed the France forward, having activated his 120m euro (£107m) release clause on 12 July. The clause dropped from 200m to 120m euros on 1 July, but Atletico claim the deal was done before then and that they are due the larger amount. Read: Coach Oktay Names Gor Mahia XI Vs Angola’s Petro Atletico “It is possible to block a player’s transfer,” Tebas told Onda Cero. “La Liga will have to decide…

A new world record for a pair of sneakers was set at auction on Tuesday when an avid collector splashed out $437,500 (about Ksh45.5 million) on Nike’s 1972 “Moon Shoe,” Sotheby’s said. The sale smashed the previous record of $190,373 (about Ksh20 million) spent in 2017 on a pair of signed Converse worn by Michael Jordan in the 1984 Olympic basketball final, the New York-headquartered auction house said in a statement. It was also well above the pre-sale estimate of $160,000, Sotheby’s added. Read: Perez Backs Nadal For Real Madrid Presidency Canadian collector Miles Nadal was the successful bidder in…

As the cliché goes east or west home is best. Senegalese midfielder Krepin Diatta found this true when he returned to his native Ziguinchor on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Club Brugge player, who was a target for racial abuse during the just ended Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt, received loads of warmth and love from his kinsmen, who lined the streets to great and be part of his success. Krepin Diatta was put in an unusual position of being racially abused by a fellow African after a model tweeted out that he looks like a ‘frog’. Read: Ex-Arsenal Star…