{"id":122,"date":"2011-01-06T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=122"},"modified":"2011-01-06T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T14:03:25","slug":"gor-mahia-players-shine-as-kenya-beat-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-players-shine-as-kenya-beat-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia players shine as Kenya beat Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/stars-tz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kogalo players were in fine form as they played pivotal roles in enabling the Kenya national team, Harambee stars to beat Sudan 1-0 in their opening match of the Nile Basin football tournament. This Sudanese team is highly experienced and is essentially a club team given that 8 of the starting players play for El merreikh which is one of the top teams in the continent. A club that is so well financed that some of their top players earn as much as 5000 Euros per month. You do the calculation and you will find that it is about 8 times what the top players in KPL make. Secondly, El Merreikh toured Kenya in 2008, 2009 and 2010, played Gor Mahia and other Kenyan teams, and soundly beat the locals. In 2009, Gor Mahia went down 0-5 to an El Merreikh team that had Nigerian dangerman Stephen Worgu in a friendly at Nyayo stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Game wise, the Sudanese dominated, using their vast experience and familiarity with each other. However the Kenyan defence battled gamely and keeper Francis Ochieng of Ulinzi had a stellar game.<\/p>\n<p>Musa Mohammed, Erik Masika, Collins Okoth, Teddy Akumu and Kevin Omondi all saw significant playing time. It was a menacing run by Omondi which resulted in a penalty when he was felled by a Sudanese player in the 17th minute. Club-mate Collins Okoth duly slotted the resulting penalty to give Kenya the win.\u00a0 Masika who came in as a sub, made a game saving play when he headed a goal-bound shot off the line after the Kenyan keeper was well beaten.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a good outing for Kogalo players, valuable experience will be gained the youngsters especially if they get to play hosts Egypt. For stand in coach Zedekiah Otieno &#8220;Zico&#8221; who also doubles as Gor Mahia coach, it was a chance to justify his elevation to national team coach and his selection as coach of the year in all Kenyan sports.<\/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-players-shine-as-kenya-beat-sudan\/\"\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>Kogalo players were in fine form as they played pivotal roles in enabling the Kenya national team, Harambee stars to<\/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-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","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=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}