{"id":2533,"date":"2013-06-04T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:31:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:31:35","slug":"st-george-ethiopia-eliminates-enppi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/st-george-ethiopia-eliminates-enppi\/","title":{"rendered":"St George (Ethiopia) eliminates ENPPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/caf.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whereas Kenyan teams including both Gor Mahia and Tusker have found the going difficult against Egyptian sides, St George of Ethiopia seem to have found a magic elixir that enables them to compete\u00a0 gamely against the Egyptians.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, they eliminated ENPPI on goal aggregate. ST George won the first leg 2-0 before loosing 1-3 in the second leg.\u00a0 In the opening leg, Shimeles Bekele opened the scoring after six minutes and Abebaw Butako added the second 19 minutes later to give St George a 2-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>In the return leg played in Cairo, ENPPI&#8217;s Ivorian striker Vincent Die Foneye opened the scoring after 25 minutes but Tesfaye Alebachew left the hosts with an uphill climb after leveling the score 12 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Die Foneye struck twice on 84 and 87 minutes to complete his hat-trick and put ENPPI within one goal from reaching the group stage but Saint George held out to eliminate the Egyptian outfit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Against Zamalek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And if you think eliminating ENPPI was a fluke, please note that in early May, St George came agonizingly close to eliminating Egyptian giants Zamalek in the 2013 Champions league. They had tied the first leg 1-1 in Cairo. In the second leg in Addis Ababa, St George were leading 2-1 before a late strike by Zamalek tied the score at 2-2 thus eliminating St George on goal aggregate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About St George<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addis Ababa based St George depends primarily on membership fees to fund the club. They count athletics legend Kenenisa Bekele as one of their most ardent supporters.<\/p>\n<p>St George also has permanent youth teams at U-20 and U-17 level. They also have a womens team. The club owns its own clubhouse complete with training facilities and hostels.<\/p>\n<p>They are in the process of building a stadium.A contract has recently been signed with China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic and Technical Corporation (CGCI). The stadium will be built on a plot of land donated by the Addis Ababa City administration.<\/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\/st-george-ethiopia-eliminates-enppi\/\"\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>Whereas Kenyan teams including both Gor Mahia and Tusker have found the going difficult against Egyptian sides, St George of<\/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-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","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=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}