{"id":15017,"date":"2019-08-10T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15017"},"modified":"2019-08-10T21:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T21:55:17","slug":"gor-mahia-leave-for-burundi-with-only-15-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-leave-for-burundi-with-only-15-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia leave for Burundi with only 15 players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/caf-champions-league.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"247\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Report courtesy of the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenyan Premier League (KPL) champions Gor Mahia will leave for  Burundi on Saturday evening ahead of their preliminary Caf Champions  League tie against Aigle Noir on Sunday with just 15 players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor\n Mahia had earlier registered 25 players for their Caf assignments this \nseason, but later made several changes that led to late registrations. \nThey will now have to make do without some players notably new signings \nGislain Yikpe and Francis Afryie. Dennis Oliech and custodian Boniface \nOluoch will also not make the trip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until Friday evening, <em>K\u2019Ogalo<\/em>\n was still trying to secure air tickets from the Ministry of Sports and \nunfortunately did not manage to get all the required tickets. They \ntherefore had to trim the traveling squad to just 15 players and 5 \ntechnical bench members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their problems have further \nbeen compounded by the fact that SportPesa just recently terminated all \ntheir sports sponsorships in the country. The giant gaming firm until \nrecently was sponsoring <em>K\u2019Ogalo<\/em> to the tune of Ksh 65 million per annum.<\/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\/gor-mahia-leave-for-burundi-with-only-15-players\/\"\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>Report courtesy of the Nation Kenyan Premier League (KPL) champions Gor Mahia will leave for Burundi on Saturday evening ahead<\/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-15017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017","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=15017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15019,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017\/revisions\/15019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}