{"id":2261,"date":"2013-04-18T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2013-04-18T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:11:36","slug":"gor-mahia-officially-through-to-top-8-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-officially-through-to-top-8-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia officially through to Top 8 semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/top8-logo.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will meet the winner of the clash between Tusker and Mathare in the semi finals of the KPL top 8 tournament. This after Ulinzi&#8217;s appeal was deemed without merit and rejected by KPL.<\/p>\n<p>linzi had protested against Gor Mahia for fielding excess foreign players in a KPL Top Eight match played on Wednesday at Nyayo National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Military-men had lodged an appeal demanding the tournament organisers to award them the fixture after K\u2019Ogalo breached the rules by fielding four foreign players namely Ivo Mapunda (Tanzanian) and Ugandan trio of Dan Serunkuma, Ivan Anguyo and Israel Emuge, which is in excess of one.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from KPL boss Jack Oguda , which was copied to both Gor Mahia and Ulinzi Stars, KPL said since Ulinzi failed to follow the protest rule 3.5 on match arrangements, the result stands and is valid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny protest by a club must be made and attached to the match report before the kick-off. The protest must be signed by the Team Manager or Coach of both clubs,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA club official who refuses to sign a protest will be suspended for at least the next two consecutive matches and face other disciplinary action. Pursuant to the above, the results of the said match stands as 4-2 in favour of Gor Mahia FC as recorded in the match reports,\u201d said\u00a0 the statement.<\/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-officially-through-to-top-8-semis\/\"\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>Gor Mahia will meet the winner of the clash between Tusker and Mathare in the semi finals of the KPL<\/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-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","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=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}