{"id":16628,"date":"2020-12-09T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16628"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:54:17","slug":"fkf-cancels-gor-mahia-vs-el-hilal-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/fkf-cancels-gor-mahia-vs-el-hilal-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"FKF cancels Gor Mahia vs El Hilal friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese giants Al Hilal were interested in playing a friendly against Gor Mahia. The Sudanese side have also qualified for the next round of the 2020-2021 CAf Champions league by eliminating Vipers of Uganda 2-0 on aggregate. They now face a daunting task against Asante Kotoko of Ghana. They are thus eager for a friendly against Gor Mahia to sharpen their tactics. They even made an announcement on their social media pages.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/hilal-friendly.JPG\" width=\"803\" height=\"693\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However FKF CEO Barry Otieno has written to Al Hilal stating that Gor Mahia will be busy in the local league and unable to travel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/fkf-hilal letter.jpg\" width=\"843\" height=\"1097\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Kahata denies rumours<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kahata-bus.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Francis Kahata who was rumoured to be heading away from Simba on loan and possibly to Gor Mahia, has come out to deny the statements and dismissed them as rumours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are just rumours, I am not leaving Simba until I see through my contract,\u201d Kahata told goal.com on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kahata has been unable to get off the bench of late and Simba are reported to be seeking a Burundian midfielder. The lack of playtime has also cost Kahata a place in the national team. But Kahata flatly denies the rumours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen news or rumours circulating on a section of media outlets purporting that Simba has released me,\u201d Kahata wrote on his Facebook page. \u201cThose are malicious and misleading news and I don\u2019t like it at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still a Simba player honouring my contract and committed to the team till the lapse of my legal responsibility.\u201d<\/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\/fkf-cancels-gor-mahia-vs-el-hilal-friendly\/\"\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>Sudanese giants Al Hilal were interested in playing a friendly against Gor Mahia. The Sudanese side have also qualified for<\/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":[125,405],"class_list":["post-16628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-francis-kahata","tag-gor-mahia-vs-al-hilal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628","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=16628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16633,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions\/16633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}