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The Kenyan champions have yet to secure a travel ticket for their trip to Kigali for the first leg on Saturday.
Gor Mahia is stranded in Nairobi and could miss his trip to Kigali to face APR in the Caf Champions League preliminary match on Saturday.
The club’s suspended manager, Sam Ochola, has confirmed in a signed statement that the club is bankrupt and that the players did not attend training on Wednesday.
“Gor Mahia is ruined! We want to gather all the available monetary support that we can to reduce our operating costs of gap, even if there are no bribes for us, the individuals, it is for the good of the club ”, wrote Ochola in the statement obtained by objective.
“FKF was going to shell out Sh3million immediately to allow Gor Mahia to travel to Rwanda, a mandatory Covid-19 test would also take place today [Wednesday] at 3pm, but the players are on strike as we speak. “
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Goal can now reveal that the team’s plans to travel to Rwanda on Wednesday have hit a snag because they have yet to purchase tickets and have tested players and officials for Covid-19.
Another source who did not want to be named told him objective the team can only travel on Friday as there are no flights to Rwanda on Thursday.
“I am very disappointed and cannot call this my club, the club that I love because I fear that the club’s standards are going down,” said the source.
“The players have not trained today [Wednesday] because they are asking for money, they have not been paid and also the mandatory Covid-19 test for the traveling group has not been carried out, I am afraid that APR is going to beat us ”
When contacted for comment, FKF CEO Barry Otieno said objective They are willing to help the clubs get tickets and travel for the first match in Kigali, but only if they write to them formally.
“We are ready to help you [but using sponsors money], and that will only be possible if you write to us requesting the same [money for tickets] Formally, we had already given them the offer and we are awaiting their comments, ”said Otieno. objective.
“As a federation, we have money that we can give them, but it is from the sponsors, they can get it if they make a formal request to the FKF, we can assure them travel tickets.
“The proposal has already been delivered to them, it is they who decide.”
The last time Gor Mahia played against APR was in 2008 during the Confederation Cup, where the army defeated. K’Ogalo 6-0 in total.
