{"id":140473,"date":"2026-05-10T06:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gor-mahia-fc-legend-allan-thigo-remembered-as-90-minute-during-13-year-career\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:02:45","slug":"gor-mahia-fc-legend-allan-thigo-remembered-as-90-minute-during-13-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gor-mahia-fc-legend-allan-thigo-remembered-as-90-minute-during-13-year-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia FC Legend Allan Thigo remembered as \u201990 minute\u2019 during 13 year career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 10 \u2013 <span><strong>Gor Mahia Patron Eliud Owalo has mourned the late legendary former club player, Allan Thigo, whom he described the greatest attacking midfielder of his generation.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>In his condolence message, Owalo empathised with the family, friends, relatives of the late soccer legend, as well as the Kenyan soccer fraternity, noting that Thigo\u2019s footprints\u00a0 in Kenyan soccer\u00a0 would be remembered for generations to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Owalo who is also former<span>\u00a0<\/span>ICT<span>\u00a0<\/span>Cabinet Secretary stated:<br \/>\u201cIt is with great sorrow that I have learnt of the death of Allan Thigo, one of Gor Mahia\u2019s and Kenya\u2019s greatest football legends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThigo was a great attacking midfielder, nicknamed the \u201c90-minute man\u201d, \u201cthe midfield general\u201d, \u201cOgango Wuon Pap\u201d and \u201cowner of the field\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllan played for Gor Mahia and was the heartbeat of the club for a record 13 years between 1970-1982; besided serving as player-coach and leading Gor to an unbeaten league title in 1976. He also took Gor Mahia to the finals of the 1979 African Cup Winners\u2019 Cup as player-coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThigo scored a record 88 goals\u00a0 for Gor Mahia and had 86 caps for the Kenya national soccer team, Harambee Stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenyan soccer has lost the greatest attacking midfielder of his generation, known for beauty, flow, entertainment \u2013 connecting players and fans and orchestrating\u00a0 the finest midfield play ever displayed by a Kenyan soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this moment of grief, I lead the Gor Mahia family and entire Kenyan soccer fraternity in honouring a soccer idol whose footprint in Kenyan soccer will be remembered for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy deepest condolences to\u00a0 \u00a0family, relatives, friends and the\u00a0 \u00a0Kenyan soccer fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay the Almighty rest his soul in eternal peace.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 10 \u2013 Gor Mahia Patron Eliud Owalo has mourned the late legendary former club player, Allan Thigo, whom he described the greatest attacking midfielder of his generation.In his condolence message, Owalo empathised with the family, friends, relatives of the late soccer legend, as well as the Kenyan soccer fraternity, noting that Thigo\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}