Disband Harambee Stars and make Gor our national team
Harambee Stars captain Micheal Olunga trains on the eve of their international friendly match against South Sudan on September 12, 2023 at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.
There was this joke that while Olunga and company jetted out to their respective foreign bases immediately after the match, nearly the entire lot of the jubilant South Sudanese squad hopped into the next matatu to continue the party in their Eastlands neighbourhoods
That all-conquering Harambee Stars team of 1982, under coach Marshall Mulwa, was actually Gor Mahia-AFC Leopards United by another name
I recently stumbled on an archived 1982 copy of The Weekly Review – the Hilary Ngweno original, not the current version being published by NMG – at the Nation Centre library that had a juicy article of Kenya’s legendary goalkeeper Mahmoud Abbas for its cover story.
Incredibly, that particular issue of the once popular weekly political magazine dedicated nine straight pages to the heroics of Abbas at that year’s East and Central African Challenge Cup, which Harambee Stars clinched after prevailing over hosts Uganda in a bad-tempered final match at Nakivubo Stadium.
