{"id":10710,"date":"2018-04-24T02:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=10710"},"modified":"2018-04-24T02:35:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:35:03","slug":"sportpesa-announces-mega-deal-for-kenya-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/sportpesa-announces-mega-deal-for-kenya-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportpesa announces mega deal for Kenya Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/rachier-sportpesa.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Betting company Sportpesa have returned to sponsorship with a bang. On Monday they announced a mega deal overing<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur dedication and commitment to the development of sports in Kenya continues. We are proud to announce our return to local sponsorships with these key football industry players.\u201d said Sportpesa in their social media pages.<\/p>\n<p>KFF will getof Shs 69 Million, as KPL receives Shs 259 Million. Gor Mahia will receive Shs 198Million and rivals AFC Leopards bag Shs 159Million.<\/p>\n<p>The three year deal that Kogalo is getting is higher than the previous deal which Sportpesa signed in 2016. That was for Ksh 180 Million over three years.<\/p>\n<h3>Mashemeji derby winner to play Hull<\/h3>\n<p>Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards will face off on May 1. The winner of the match will play Hull City on May 13. Hull City which is now in the English second tier will arrive in the country on May 11. Gor Mahia were originally slated to play Hull City but Ingwe appealed.<\/p>\n<p>Hull City Coach, Nigel Adkins, said, \u201cThis is an exciting opportunity for the club to be able to go play in Kenya. The passion for football out there is enormous and we can\u2019t wait to interact with the local teams. I\u2019m very honored to be the first Coach to bring the team to Africa!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hull City beat KPL All Stars in 2016 with Humphrey Mieno scoring the consolation goal for KPL All Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Sports PS Kaberia says he is trying to get Kasarani ready for the Hull City match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really pushing for Kasarani to be ready and host the match. We will be visitng there soon to check the progress. The venues under construction and renovations will be ready before June this year.\u201d said Kaberia<\/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\/sportpesa-announces-mega-deal-for-kenya-football\/\"\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>Betting company Sportpesa have returned to sponsorship with a bang. On Monday they announced a mega deal overing \u201cOur dedication<\/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":[123],"class_list":["post-10710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-sponsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710","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=10710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10711,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710\/revisions\/10711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}