{"id":15689,"date":"2020-02-06T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2020-02-08T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:29:49","slug":"balinya-gor-mahia-is-bigger-abd-better-than-yanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/balinya-gor-mahia-is-bigger-abd-better-than-yanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Balinya: Gor Mahia is bigger and better than Yanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/balinya-celeb-nzoia-20.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New sensation Juma Balinya says he is happy to have joined Gor Mahia and looks forward to emulating the exploits of his compatriots like Sserunkuma and Kagere<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia\u2019s new signing signing Juma Balinya says he is satisfied with his start to life in the Kenyan Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Ugandan forward has also praised coach Steven Polack and also vowed that the Kenyan champions are on course to retaining the league title this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy and satisfied with how things are going so far. I have come in and got an understanding coach. New teammates who have quality and have helped me settle. We want to win the title this year and are on course to achieving that,\u201d Balinya told\u00a0<em>Nairobi News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old striker made a name for himself for his exploits in the Ugandan league last season where he emerged top scorer with 22 goals.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Tanzanian giants Young Africans but failed to settle and was let go after just six months with three goals from 12 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no issues with Yanga. They are a good team but I believe Gor Mahia are a bigger club, well-known in Uganda and have won more titles in the region and even in the continent. My brothers Khalid Aucho and Baba Kizito passed through this club and went on to do great things,\u201d\u00a0Balinya said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Balinya grabbed a brace as Gor Mahia thumped Nzoia Sugar 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo are perched on top of the table, with a four-point cushion over second-placed Kakamega Homeboyz, despite having played one game less.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia have 44 points from 18 matches they have played so far.<\/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\/balinya-gor-mahia-is-bigger-abd-better-than-yanga\/\"\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>New sensation Juma Balinya says he is happy to have joined Gor Mahia and looks forward to emulating the exploits<\/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":[642],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-juma-balinya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","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=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15696,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions\/15696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}