{"id":10551,"date":"2018-03-29T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T12:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2018-03-29T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:24:36","slug":"gor-mahia-to-play-hull-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-play-hull-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia to play Hull City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia are set to play Hull City of the English second tier on May 13. The match is being facilitated by Sportpesa.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Reporting from the Standard<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Premier League Champions Gor Mahia are set to host former English Premier League outfit Hull City in a friendly match sponsored by SportPesa on May 13.<\/p>\n<p>K&#8217;Ogalo are not strangers to playing Premier League sides after having lost 2-1 to Everton in Tanzania back in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Dylan Kerr says he is happy &#8216;the management secured such a friendly&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a good match for us as a club and we welcome Hull to Kenya. We played Everton last year and it was a good experience for us and we are hoping to get the best this time. It shows that we are growing to international standards and I am happy the management secured such a friendly. The match is good for our side as we seek to defend our KPL title and make progress in the CAF Confederations Cup,&#8221; said Kerr.<\/p>\n<p>Gor will play South African side SuperSport in the CAF Confederations Cup and Kerr has urged his players to take advantage of their &#8216;home&#8217; status to win the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SuperSport is a big club. They reached last year&#8217;s final and we are aware of the threat they pose. This is a team I have known for a while,&#8221; said Kerr.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was playing and coaching in South Africa and we ought to take the match as a final. We have to take our chances especially at home before heading out for the return leg,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hull City, who also enjoy shirt sponsorship from a betting firm SportPesa, played an all-star team from Kenya in a friendly back in February last year at the KCOM Stadium. Hull won 2-1 courtesy of Eliot Holmes\u2019 header and an own goal from Gor&#8217;s Harun Shakava.<\/p>\n<p>Humphrey Mieno gave the Kenyan side a consolation goal from a long range shot.<\/p>\n<p>Hull is currently 18th in the Championship log, with 39 points after 38 games. \u00a0They suffered a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Birmingham in their last fixture and will host Aston Villa when the league resumes.<\/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\/gor-mahia-to-play-hull-city\/\"\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>Gor Mahia are set to play Hull City of the English second tier on May 13. The match is being<\/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-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","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=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10552,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/10552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}