Author: Bonface Osano

Gor Mahia will be back in action on Wednesday when they host Western Stima at the Kasarani Stadium in a rescheduled Kenyan Premier League fixture. So much will be at stake more so for K’Ogalo who begun the season on a low under coach Hasan Oktay with some quarters ruling them out of the title race after just three matches. A win for the defending champions against the league’s newbies will see them climb to the top of the standings for the first time this season on goal difference. Gor Mahia, who have clinch the title for a record 17…

Harambee Stars coach Sebastian Migne is not ruling out quitting if the nagging problem of nonpayment will not be sorted out. Since coming on board in May last year to replace Belgian Paul Put, the 45-year-old Frenchman has always lamented over delay in paying his salary. Currently, he has gone three months without pay according to reports. The responsibility of paying Harambee Stars technical bench lies with the Sports Ministry. Despite the frustrations, Migne managed to qualify the team to this year’s AFCON in Egypt for the first time in 15 years. The huge achievement has helped build his profile…

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was unimpressed with his side’s barren stalemate against Bayern Munich in the Champions League round of 16 on Tuesday night at Anfied. “It’s not the result or the game we dreamed of,” said the German, who felt the two giants showed a lot of respect, making the game “uncomfortable.” “Not really a lot of things happened in the game but it was an intense one. You saw the respect both teams had for each other. A lot of situations I didn’t see in all the games when we watched Munich, to be honest – like how…

Kenya Footballers Welfare Association, Kefwa,has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Sports Rashid Echesa asking that he clears pending wages of other players in leagues across the country. Kefwa are after equality following a recent gesture by the ministry of sports, through the CS, to bailout cash strapped AFC Leopards by clearing accrued allowances of their players amounting to Ksh 2million. In a letter to the CS, Kefwa General Secretary Jerry Santo stated that, “We took great interest in the kind gesture demonstrated by our Cabinet Secretary Hon. Richard Echesa’s move to cause the government to bail out the playing…

The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Player Status Committee has ruled in favour of Tusker FC regarding the status of Kevin Okoth Wayodi. The ruling states that the player belongs to Tusker FC and had been loaned to Western Stima FC for a period of one (1) year. On the strength of that determination by the FKF PSC, the player was thus ineligibly fielded by Western Stima FC against Tusker FC earlier this season, a game Stima won 1-0. Tusker had played the match under protest after Western Stima insisted on fielding Okoth against them despite being at the club on…

Assistant referee was caught on camera running inside the pitch during active play in a KPL match on Sunday. The AR was sprinting to keep pace with an attacking move involving Gor Mahia forwards when he found himself right inside the pitch. Samuel Onyango went ahead to complete the move in the 24th minute to hand K’Ogalo a slim 1-0 win over Sofapaka at the Afraha Stadium, Nakuru. According FIFA’s Law 6, during active play, assistant referees should strive to maintain a position even with either the second-to-last defender or the ball—whichever is closer to the goal line. The assistant…

Chelsea will not defend their FA Cup crown following a 2-0 defeat against Manchester United in the round of 16 on Monday night. Two first-half goals from Ander Herrera and Paul Pogba ended the struggling Blues’ quest to retain the title they won last season. Man Utd caretaker coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hailed his tactics against the hosts saying they worked. “The performance was fantastic, the tactics worked. Obviously we asked Ander and Paul, our midfielders, next to Nemanja to go a bit higher up and get into the box more often, with Marcus and Romelu wider. So we worked…

Gor Mahia edged out Sofapaka 1-0 at the Afraha Stadium on Sunday to move three points off Kenyan Premier League leaders Bandari in the standings at position three. Meanwhile, their in-laws AFC Leopards lost their fifth league game on the trot following a similar loss to visiting Ulinzi Stars at the Kenyatta Stadium – Machakos. In Nakuru, defending champions K’Ogalo showed their pedigree, squeezing a 1-0 Victory over Sofapaka to move to third in the standings on 25 points, three off leaders Bandari FC with a game at hand. Former Ulinzi Stars forward Samuel Onyango was the toast of the…

The NBA is launching a professional basketball league in Africa that will feature 12 teams from several countries across the continent. The league will debut next year, and will be referred to as the Basketball Africa League. It will include teams from several African countries, including Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. The NBA announced its plan along with International Basketball Federation, and will conduct qualification tournaments later this year. While there are several basketball teams across Africa, a pro league will unify them under one umbrella and provide resources and visibility. “The Basketball Africa…

Kakamega Homeboyz have dismissed Ugandan winger George Mandela for alleged match fixing. The club’s president Cleophas Shimanyula has made it known the player will never feature for the club ever again. Mandela alongside Ugandan coach Paul Nkata were at the center of alleged match fixing scandal which recently rocked the Kenyan Premier League side. According to Shimanyula, Nkata, who ran away from the club following the much publicized claims, paid certain players to deliberately lose matches. Mandela who has also been missing is said to have fled to Uganda and Shimanyula now says the player will never feature for the…

Bandari FC striker Wycliffe Ochomo who injured his elbow on Saturday during their KPL match against Kariobangi Sharks at the Kasarani Stadium has been successfully operated on. The former Congo United and Muhoroni Youth danger-man landed hard after an aerial duel fracturing his elbow. The player only lasted five minutes on the field after coming on as a second half substitute in the 50th minute. A visibly paining Ochomo was whisked away to Guru Nanak hospital where he underwent the procedure after receiving first aid. “Wyclife Ochomo Yesterday underwent surgery successfully and is working closely with our physicians and team…

One of Africa’s biggest club rivalries Kariakor Derby also known as Dar Derby is taking place today at Uhuru Stadium, Dar Es Salaam – Tanzania. Eternal rivals Yanga SC and Simba SC will lock horns for the 102nd time with so much at stake. Apart from the three league points on offer, both sets of fans will be hoping to bag the most important prize in any derby, the bragging rights, by emerging winners! Record Tanzanian champions Yanga, also known as Yanga Wakimataifa, have had the better of Simba, nicknamed Wekundu wa Msimbazi, in this tie. In the 101 past…

800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya has declared she’s “unquestionably women” ahead of hearing of a case challenging proposed rules to restrict testosterone levels in female athletes at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). The 28-year-old South African made the statement after IAAF denied it would argue during the hearing next week that she should be classified as a biological male. “Ms Semenya is unquestionably a woman. She is a heroine and an inspiration to many around the world,” her lawyers said in a statement. “She asks that she be respected and treated as any other athlete.” The rules would…

Former AFC Leopards interim coach Dennis Kitambi officially joined Dar giant Simba SC as an assistant to Patrick Aussems on Friday. Kitambi left Leopards in May 2018 for a short reunion with his mentor Stewart Hall at Saif Sporting Club of Bangladesh. He was recently offered a chance to return to the den, according to sources, but turned it down, instead choosing to go back to his native Tanzania for the Simba job. Kitambi assisted Hall at Azam FC when they won the Cecafa Kagame Cup for the first time in 2015 against Gor Mahia. While serving as the Ingwe’s…

Manchester United paid Jose Mourinho and his staff Sh2.5 billion (£19.6m) in compensation following his sacking in December, according to the BBC. United revealed the figures in their second quarter financial results. Mourinho was sacked after a run of poor results, culminating in a 3-1 defeat by Liverpool, that left them 11 points off fourth place in the Premier League. Caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer won 10 of his first 11 games before Tuesday’s 2-0 Champions League last-16 first-leg defeat by Paris St-Germain. Within the financial results, which were released to the New York Stock Exchange, it said: “Exceptional items…