As rugby fraternity, we are mourning the death of Tony Onyango Opondo of KCB Rugby Club who passed on Tuesday 3 March 2020. Onyango collapsed and died at his Ngong residence on Tuesday nigh. His body has been moved to Umash Funeral home.
The tough tackling player was part of the KCB squad that trained yesterday ahead of the Kenya Cup playoffs set for this weekend.
An alumnus of Maseno School, Tony first played for Impala Saracens before joining Strathmore Leos and was part of the Leos squad that reached the 2012/13 cup final . He moved to Homeboyz where he won the 2016 National Sevens Circuit before moving to KCB where he was part of the squad that beat Kabras 23-15 in last season`s Kenya Cup final in Kakamega.
Onyango played for the Kenya national team across all representative levels,earning his first Simba call up under Michael Tank Otieno during the Elgon Cup against Uganda in April 2012 and became a regular under Jerome Paawater , playing for the Simbas upto 2018 at the Rugby World Cup Repechage tournament in Marseille, France.
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