Gor coach Nuttall plays it safe ahead of Kagame Cup

By  CELLESTINE OLILO

What you need to know:

  • The club has failed to deliver on the big stage for close to two decades now. Under pressure from passionate and expectant ‘Green Army’ to end the jinx, Gor coach Frank Nuttall has played it safe, saying his only target is “to make it past the group stage”.
  • Gor open their campaign against Young Africans (Yanga FC) at the Dar es Salaam National Stadium on July 18.
  • Already, there’s banter on social media platforms of the two clubs, with fans of both teams warning the opponent to come into the match prepared for defeat.

Gor Mahia leave for Dar es Salaam on Thursday next week for the 2015 Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) Kagame Cup set for July 18-August 2.

K’Ogalo will play their last Kenyan Premier League match this weekend against Mathare United before their flight to Tanzania.

The club has failed to deliver on the big stage for close to two decades now. Under pressure from passionate and expectant ‘Green Army’ to end the jinx, Gor coach Frank Nuttall has played it safe, saying his only target is “to make it past the group stage”.

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“The tournament will be a useful gauge of our development as a team. It is a good thing that the league is going on because this ensures that the players will be in good shape.

“We have set ourselves a modest target; we simply want to make it past the preliminary stage,” Nuttall said.

Gor open their campaign against Young Africans (Yanga FC) at the Dar es Salaam National Stadium on July 18.

Already, there’s banter on social media platforms of the two clubs, with fans of both teams warning the opponent to come into the match prepared for defeat.

Last year, K’Ogalo didn’t make it out of their group after losing to KCCA (Uganda) and Atletico Olympic (Burundi). They then drew with Djibouti Telecom and APR Rwanda.

The 14-time league champions have been pooled alongside hosts Yanga, Djibouti Telecom and Sudan’s Al Khartoum where their former midfielder Anthony “Teddy” Akumu currently plies his trade.

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