{"id":1347,"date":"2012-12-25T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2012-12-25T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T17:33:53","slug":"kiongera-to-join-gor-mahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/kiongera-to-join-gor-mahia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiongera to join Gor Mahia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.futaa.com\/\/images\/350x300\/PaulMungai_1.JPG\" width=\"192\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of supersport.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia have agreed in principle with KCB forward Paul Mungai Kiongera to have him cross over to the 2012 KPL Top Eight champions at the beginning of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Kiongera was KCB\u2019s top-scorer, having netted 10 of the club\u2019s 35 goals in the recently concluded campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He was also runner up in the Kenyan Premier League Footballer of the Year Awards, losing out to Gor Mahia\u2019s Dan Serunkuma.<\/p>\n<p>The imminent switch was confirmed by Gor Mahia\u2019s secretary general George Bwana, who said that they have had extensive talks with the player and officials from his club and that they have reached an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went into negotiations aimed at having the player join us in the new season and I can now confirm that we have made positive headway. We are now working out the details of the contract and we shall soon be putting pen to paper,\u201d said Bwana.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the player\u2019s qualities, Bwana described him as a skilful midfielder, one who would be a positive addition to their side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need players of his calibre on our side, and with him joining us, we shall be a very strong side come 2013,\u201d said Bwana.<\/p>\n<p>AFC Leopards had expressed an interest in the player, but have seemingly lost out on their man.<\/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\/kiongera-to-join-gor-mahia\/\"\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 supersport.com Gor Mahia have agreed in principle with KCB forward Paul Mungai Kiongera to have him cross over<\/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-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}