{"id":1214,"date":"2012-11-17T03:55:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2012-11-17T03:57:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:57:26","slug":"gor-mahia-vs-afc-rivalry-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-vs-afc-rivalry-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia vs AFC rivalry reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-afc-crowd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of EA Standard<\/p>\n<p>In many countries, winning the league is every team\u2019s ambition in any season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cup competition rarely wins one any accolades and in Kenya it is no different as winners get no prize money or financial support to take part in the expensive Confederation Cup competition.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>With no financial incentive to honour continental fixtures, teams like Mathare United, Sofapaka and Nairobi City Stars have not recovered from the huge investment that they put in to take part in the Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>But this season the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Cup has taken on a new dimension. It has become the most attractive competition.<\/p>\n<p>After missing out on the league title, the country\u2019s three big teams AFC Leopards, Gor Mahia and Sofapaka will all be looking to make amends in the cup competition.<\/p>\n<p>It starts on Saturday at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani with a derby between arch-rivals Gor Mahia and AFC.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams are still reeling from the disappointment of their last minute failure to clinch the title.<\/p>\n<p>Gor are the most disappointed after coming so close only to be held by Thika United and denied the title on the last day of competition. Winning the competition may be the tonic they need after missing out on the most important competition.<\/p>\n<p>Gor go into today\u2019s fixture as favourites considering that they won the last match against their rivals 2-1 at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>Leopards must watch out for Dan Sserunkuma, Rama Salim and Kevin Omondi. The three are capable of determining the fate of today\u2019s match.<\/p>\n<p>AFC had at one time more than 10 point lead in the league table but let it go towards the end.<\/p>\n<p>It must be disappointing for them that they have to fight for the Cup competition and are in danger of finishing the season empty-handed after coming so close to being crowned league champions.<\/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-vs-afc-rivalry-reloaded\/\"\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>Courtesy of EA Standard In many countries, winning the league is every team\u2019s ambition in any season. The Cup competition<\/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-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}