{"id":140502,"date":"2026-05-10T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/allan-thigo-former-cs-owalo-mourns-ogango-wuon-pap\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:02:46","slug":"allan-thigo-former-cs-owalo-mourns-ogango-wuon-pap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/allan-thigo-former-cs-owalo-mourns-ogango-wuon-pap\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Thigo: Former CS Owalo mourns \u201cOgango Wuon Pap\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Former ICT cabinet secretary Eliud Owalo has termed former Gor Mahia midfielder Allan Thigo\u00a0 as one of Kenya\u2019s greatest football legends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Allan Thigo who marshalled Harambee Stars and Gor Mahia midfield between 1970-1981 passed on on Saturday May 9th evening in Bungoma,his family confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eliud Owalo the current patron of the 21 time Kenya Premier League Champions mourned the football icon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\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.Thigo 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,Owalo statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thigo played for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Gor Mahia for a record 13 years between 1970-1982, also 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 where they lost 8-0 to Canon Younde of Cameroon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During his decade long career Thigo scored a record 88 goals<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>for Gor Mahia and had 86 caps for the Kenya national soccer team, Harambee Stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cKenyan soccer has lost the greatest attacking midfielder of his generation, known for beauty, flow, entertainment \u2013 connecting players and fans and orchestrating<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the finest midfield play ever displayed by a Kenyan soccer team\u201d,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/allan-thigo-former-cs-owalo-mourns-ogango-wuon-pap\/\">Allan Thigo: Former CS Owalo mourns \u201cOgango Wuon Pap\u201d<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former ICT cabinet secretary Eliud Owalo has termed former Gor Mahia midfielder Allan Thigo\u00a0 as one of Kenya\u2019s greatest football legends. Allan Thigo who marshalled Harambee Stars and Gor Mahia midfield between 1970-1981 passed on on Saturday May 9th evening in Bungoma,his family confirmed. Eliud Owalo the current patron of the 21 time Kenya Premier [&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-140502","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\/140502","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=140502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}