Akwende!

Mariga never plays well for Harambee Stars. He's yet to mature like Oliech has done.
You can clearly see Oliech as the team leader from how he behaves nowadays.

@Nostopping, I agree with you,going by the past matches that Mariga has featured for Harambee stars he has always done pretty well.
What most Kenyans want to see is Mariga scoring everytime and he is just a midfielder.
Players must be paid their allowances and there is no excuse for that if we want our national team to prosper.

I think in my honest opinion, much as he wanted to get paid, he should have approached the issue with a sober mind.

If he used his money to travel, then that shows some level of commitment to the team. But all this is watered down by his insistence on getting paid first before playing.

A better approach would have been to insist on the ticket being sent to him in Italy, so that if the management failed to do so, then his failure to travel and consequently missing from the team would have been squarely blamed on the same management - leaving him blameless and innocent.

But as it is now, it hard for anyone to listen to him creating excuses for not honoring national duty..

There is something I do not get. You unleash an Escalade on Kenyans then leta fujo because of KShs 1.5M? There must be more than meets the eye!!!!

That said, I am sad he won't play tonight. I remember how he played with Oliech and Oyombe... that was great football lakini I will never forget vile tulinyeshewa ndani ya stadium.....

Surely he deserves HIS money. What I am saying is that his coming all the way, using his own fare all that while, shows that his patriotism far exceeds the money. There is more to this....

got it

@ Bwenyenye......He didn't use his money for this fixture, that has already been taken care of by FKF. What he's demanding is refund for
air fare used in previous fixtures. My question is why did he accept the ticket and come all the way kusumbua manager, he should have demanded his money from Italy regardless of the amount.....besides he traveled (first class) for the Seychelles match but didn't even play because of injury. I appreciate what he has done for the country in previous games but IMHO kama he has problems with the Federation he should have rejected the call to play for Harambee Stars earlier than waiting until the last two days. I'm sure his move has even affected the morale of players in the team.

Word from FKF is that Mariga alilipwa pesa yote na the Evans Kidero team, the main issue is that he used to fly First class whereas the Federation was only supposed to cater for an economy class ticket....otherwise you top up kama unataka starehe. Its actually a payment dispute and not a case of delayed payment.

I wonder how Mariga will take this if it's a win....especially the way the boys are playing, he isn't being missed at all

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