{"id":16411,"date":"2020-10-16T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16411"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:46:37","slug":"lawrence-juma-has-gone-to-sofapaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/lawrence-juma-has-gone-to-sofapaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Juma has gone to Sofapaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/lawrence-juma-mathare-18.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the rumours about Lawrence Juma&#8217;s imminent departure to Sofapaka have proven true. Today Juma signed a new contract with Sofapaka as Elly Kalekwa appears determined to build a strong side, having also signed Michael Kibwage who was a transfer target of Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to have completed the signing of Harambee Stars midfielder Lawrence Juma. Juma has put pen to paper to a two-year deal ahead of the new season,&#8221; said the Sofapaka portal<\/p>\n<p>Juma joined Gor Mahia in 2018 from Nzoia Sugar. After a slow start and plenty of time spent on the bench, he played his way into the starting line-up then to the national team. Several weeks ago on his social media pages, he hinted at wearing a new blue uniform which left fans wondering if he was going to AFC or to Sofapaka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to be here, this a new chapter, a new environment and I am looking forward to a good time with the club. I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>Sofapaka will be one of the teams to challenge Gor Mahia&#8217;s dominance in the 2020-2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe squad we have managed to assemble is a quality one which will challenge for top honours in the 2020\/21 Kenyan Premier League campaign. This is a team that has a high chance of winning the league title and get a chance to play in the continental competitions. We have the resources we need to be successful and I am confident we will.\u201d said Kalekwa.<\/p>\n<p>With Juma&#8217;s departure, Gor Mahia will now rely on Camerounian Bertrand Konfor and new signing John Macharia to shore up the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/lawrence-juma-has-gone-to-sofapaka\/\"\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>All the rumours about Lawrence Juma&#8217;s imminent departure to Sofapaka have proven true. Today Juma signed a new contract with<\/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":[112,631],"class_list":["post-16411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-transfers","tag-lawrence-juma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411","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=16411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16414,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions\/16414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}