{"id":14468,"date":"2019-03-20T03:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=14468"},"modified":"2019-03-20T03:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:22:27","slug":"oktay-praises-ze-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/oktay-praises-ze-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"Oktay praises Ze Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/oktay-usher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"361\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia coach Hassan Oktay attributes the team&#8217;s improved performance after a poor start to the fact that the team has now adjusted to his tactics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\u201cI put my own philosophy and it has worked and I believe they are going \nto get better. Even in our first game in our loss against Bandari, I \nsaid we going to get better and you can see that happening every day,\u201d \nOktay said after the Petro game.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oktay further thinks that the previous coach Dylan Kerr benefited from the foundation laid by the previous coach Ze Maria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cAt the start of my tenure, they struggled to get what I needed from  them. The other coach (Dylan Kerr) had a different philosophy but the  Brazilian (Ze Maria) laid the foundation for this group. A little bit of  tiki-taka football, slow motion and the other guy (Kerr) who came took  the benefit from him but I changed everything from the scratch. &#8221; said Oktay to futaa.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oktay says his attention now shifts to the domestic scene <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cAs a coach, you must strive to win the league first but you can\u2019t  ignore the other competitions you are in too. Times it\u2019s hard to balance  this because I have to rotate due to the schedule we have. A time you  have injuries and you have to force your players to play. Like Muguna  (Kenneth) will be out for another week or ten days and I have to find  able replacements in his position. It&#8217;s my job to do that,\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia open their 2019 FKF cup campaign against Kenpoly on Wednesday.<\/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\/oktay-praises-ze-maria\/\"\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>Gor Mahia coach Hassan Oktay attributes the team&#8217;s improved performance after a poor start to the fact that the team<\/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":[152,587],"class_list":["post-14468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-coach","tag-hassan-oktay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468","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=14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14470,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions\/14470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}