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Gor Mahia has only won a single competition since 1995. Moreover, it has since escaped relegation thrice. Despite its financial troubles, the club was playing a good league season (2005 � 2006) but eventually new wrangles devastated it all. The club is steeped in Luo legends and mythology. Gor Mahia was a Luo hero who was known to possess mystical powers. Mahia is a Luo word which describes wonder and mystery and hence when Gor was formed it was supposed to naturally possess these mystical characteristics of the legend it was named after. Indeed Gor lived to that expectation and even exceeded what many had expected. In its most successful years Gor was invincible and some even regarded the club as the best in Africa. Coupled with the undying loyalty of its supporters Gor still has a potency to rise up from the ashes and regain its lost glory as the truly "mighty Gor". In 1980, the club was ordered to change its name as part of the disbandment of tribal associations, but the order was rescinded under a ruling that legendary heroes were not tribalistic. The club returned to silverware in 2008 when it won the KFF Cup. However, all the other KPL clubs boycotted the cup. |
