{"id":10021,"date":"2017-09-20T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2017-09-20T02:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T02:37:00","slug":"wendo-named-player-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/wendo-named-player-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendo named player of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/wendo-player-month-17.jpg\" width=\"544\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><br \/>\nDefensive midfielder Ernest Wendo was voted the the Sports Journalists Association of Kenya player of the month for May 2017. Wendo was officially presented with the award at Gor Mahia\u2019s training base at Camp Toyoyo Stadium in Nairobi yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Wendo&#8217;s role as defensive midfielder was seen as key in enabling Kogalo to record a superb record including beating  rivals AFC Leopards 3-0, Chemelil 2-0, Nzoia Sugar 1-0, and a 1-1 draw against Posta Rangers and Thika United in May.<\/p>\n<p>Wendo received 23 votes ahead of Tusker FC custodian Duncan Ochieng (20 votes), third-placed Kepha Aswani of Nakumatt (19), and Ulinzi Stars&#8217; Stephen Waruru (18). <\/p>\n<p>The award comes with a cash prize of Ksh 100,000 plus a 45 inch TV as well as Ksh 50,000 to be shared among the remaining players.<\/p>\n<p>Its an honor for Wendo to win this award ahead of other much more fancied players. Wendo is one of the most improved players of 2017. When he joined Kogalo in 2015 from Bidco FC, he had a torrid time getting any playing time ahead of players like Khalid Aucho and Collins Okoth. This year he has become one of the key players and a member of the national team. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/wendo-named-player-of-the-month\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defensive midfielder Ernest Wendo was voted the the Sports Journalists Association of Kenya player of the month for May 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10024,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}