{"id":11202,"date":"2018-09-07T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=11202"},"modified":"2018-09-07T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:38:10","slug":"gor-mahia-players-form-bulk-of-stars-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-players-form-bulk-of-stars-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia players form bulk of stars squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/kenyapage.net\/football\/images\/kahata-train-stars.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Players who currently play for Gor Mahia or have previously played for Gor Mahia formed the bulk of the squad named by Harambee stars coach Sebastian Migne. Stars are due to play Ghana Black Stars in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) Group \u201cF\u201d qualifier at Kasarani Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Kogalo players in the squad are Philemon Otieno, Joash Onyango and Francis Kahata. The former Kogalo players are Eric Ouma, Anthony Akumu, David Owino, Musa Mohamed and Michael Olunga.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya lost their opener away to Sierra Leone, therefore a win is crucial if they are to keep their hopes alive.\u00a0 One Kogalo player who is sure to be in the starting line-up is the in-form Francis Kahata.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya has never played Ghana in a competitive match. All the previous matches have been friendlies. Ghana is responsible for inflicting the heaviest defeat Kenya has ever suffered (13-2) in 1964. That was the only time former president Jomo Kenyatta ever attended a football match and he left in a huff at halftime as Ghana started to run up the score. Before he left, he cried out in despair: &#8220;Why can&#8217;t they bring in Kipchoge Keino to run past these Ghanaians. &#8220;.<\/p>\n<h3>Squad<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers<\/strong><br \/>\nPatrick Matasi<br \/>\nFaroukh Shikalo<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nIan Otieno<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong><br \/>\nPhilemon Otieno<br \/>\nJoakins Atudo<br \/>\nDenis Odhiambo<br \/>\nJoash Onyango<br \/>\nBernard Ochieng<br \/>\nAboud Omar<br \/>\nDavid Ochieng<br \/>\nEric Ouma<br \/>\nJoseph Okumu<br \/>\nMusa Mohammed<br \/>\nDavid Owino<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong><br \/>\nFrancis Kahata<br \/>\nAbdalla Hassan<br \/>\nAntony Akumu<br \/>\nErick Johanna<br \/>\nIsmael Gonzalez<br \/>\nJohanna Omollo<br \/>\nOvella Ochieng<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards<\/strong><br \/>\nPistone Mutamba<br \/>\nJesse Were<br \/>\nMichael Olunga<\/p>\n<\/div>\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-players-form-bulk-of-stars-squad\/\"\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>Players who currently play for Gor Mahia or have previously played for Gor Mahia formed the bulk of the squad<\/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-11202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202","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=11202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11204,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions\/11204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}