{"id":1381,"date":"2013-01-06T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2013-01-27T02:13:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:13:43","slug":"owino-lavatsa-akumu-kiongera-in-action-as-kenya-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/owino-lavatsa-akumu-kiongera-in-action-as-kenya-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"Owino, Lavatsa, Akumu, Kiongera in action as Kenya sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kenyapage.net\/football\/images\/lavatsa-burundi-12.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shambles that is Kenya national team football finally came to a head as Kenya were eliminated from the CHAN after being held to a barren draw by a determined Burundi side. The national team had been riven by confusion following the sudden departure of French coach Henri Michel.<\/p>\n<p>In action in the starting lineup were Kogalo players Edwin Lavatsa, David Owino and Anthony Akumu. The match was poorly played in large part due to the poor condition of the Nyayo stadium surface. Kenya dominated possesion especially in the first half but never looked capable of prying open the determined Burundi defence.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Akumu stood tall in defensive midfield and held back any Burundi attacks. Edwin Lavatsa was quite active in attack but coordination between himself , Mike Baraza and Wesely Kemboi was below par. Paul Kiongera came in for Edwin Lavatsa in the 72 minute but he was innefectual.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Raila Odinga and minister Ababu Namwamba were in the crowd. One can only hope that these people understand the real problems plaguing Kenya football. It is also worth noting that Kenya are due to play Nigeria in less than a month. While Nigeria has been busy playing friendly matches against top teams, Kenya still has no full time coach.<\/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\/owino-lavatsa-akumu-kiongera-in-action-as-kenya-sink\/\"\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>The shambles that is Kenya national team football finally came to a head as Kenya were eliminated from the CHAN<\/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":[66,1,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-old-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}