{"id":1303,"date":"2012-12-07T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-12-07T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T02:52:07","slug":"omondi-lavatsa-play-pivotal-roles-as-kenya-reaches-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/omondi-lavatsa-play-pivotal-roles-as-kenya-reaches-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Omondi , Lavatsa play pivotal roles as Kenya reaches final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kenyapage.net\/football\/images\/cecafa-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kenya made it to the finals of the 2012 CECAFA challenge cup after beating a hard fighting Zanzibar side on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The Zanzibaris had shocked Kenya when Khamis Mcha found himself wide open in front of the Kenya goal and he made no mistake. Kenya fought back gamely with Cliff Miheso and Mike Baraza coming close. The equalizing goal came when Gor Mahia&#8217;s Kevin Omondi floated a long ball into the danger area. A backpedalling Zanzibari defender headed the ball into his own net. The score at halftime was 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the 75th minute, the Islanders took the lead yet again this time via the penalty spot. Kenya came back storming yet again and this time Ingwe striker Mike Baraza headed home a corner from Abdallag Juma.<\/p>\n<p>In the penalty shootout, Edwin Lavatsa calmy slotted his attempt along with Baraza, Jockins Atudo and Abdallah Juma<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/omondi-lavatsa-play-pivotal-roles-as-kenya-reaches-final\/\"\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>&nbsp; Kenya made it to the finals of the 2012 CECAFA challenge cup after beating a hard fighting Zanzibar side<\/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-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","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=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}