{"id":14797,"date":"2019-06-14T03:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T03:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=14797"},"modified":"2019-06-14T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:24:57","slug":"shakava-motivated-to-work-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/shakava-motivated-to-work-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakava motivated to work harder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/shakava-ortho.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the provisional Harambee stars squad that was to train in France was named, Gor Mahia skipper Harun Shakava&#8217;s name was nowehere to be seen. This came as a surprise to many as Shakava had an excellent season and was the most consistent central defender at Kogalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after Brian Mandela Onyango was waylaid by an injury, Shakava was not called up as coach Migne named the final squad. Shakava is taking it all in stride. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I  cannot force anyone to call me, it will be out of order to do that. This is a challenge for me to continue working harder and focus on the  ways of improving my game because maybe my best was not someone&#8217;s best.  What I know is that my chances will come one day and no one will take  that away from me.&#8221; he said to goal.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former  Gor Mahia midfield ace Anthony Akumu faired only slightly better. He was named to the training squad but was later dropped. Allan  Wanga , Cliffoed Miheso and Jesse Were were other surprise omissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that I am taking everything positively, that is the  only way to grow. I also urge striker Allan Wanga, Anthony Akumu and  Jesse Were to take this snub as a challenge to give their best next  season.&#8221; said Shakava<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Gor Mahia players made it to the final squad: Joash Onyango, Philemon Otieno and Francis Kahata. A slight improvement when compared to the last time Kenya qualified for the Africa Nations cup. On that occassion in 2004, no Gor Mahia or AFC Player was in the squad. Both teams were battling relegation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shakava for his part is not certain about where he will be playing when his contract expires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cI have about six months remaining in my contract with Gor Mahia. I  still don&#8217;t know whether I will be with them or not but years are not on  my side so I just have to give my best wherever I will be.\u201d  concluded Shakava to goal<\/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\/shakava-motivated-to-work-harder\/\"\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>When the provisional Harambee stars squad that was to train in France was named, Gor Mahia skipper Harun Shakava&#8217;s name<\/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":[383],"class_list":["post-14797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-harun-shakava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797","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=14797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14798,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797\/revisions\/14798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}