{"id":2548,"date":"2013-06-07T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2013-06-07T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:29:08","slug":"gor-mahia-may-play-in-cecafa-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-may-play-in-cecafa-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia may play in CECAFA cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/cecafa.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the Nation<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gor Mahia have indicated a willingness to replace Tusker at the Council of East and Central Football Associations (Cecafa) Club Championships that will be hosted by Sudan, starting June 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This is after the Kenyan Premier League champions Tusker, Thursday hinted that they would give the annual competition a pass, citing \u201csecurity reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Cecafa Secretary general Nicholas Musonye confirmed Tusker\u2019s indication to withdraw and communication with Gor over the impending vacancy at the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe will welcome them (Gor) but that is the decision of the Cecafa executive committee,\u201d Musonye said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The two-week tournament is set to take place in Southern Gordofan and North Darfur States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe club is yet to officially receive any security assurance from the tournament organizers and the Sudanese Government on this matter. If the situation doesn\u2019t change by end of this week, then Tusker will not go to Sudan,\u201d Tusker team director Charles Obiny told the <em>Daily Nation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This development has opened the door for Gor, who other than finishing second last season also clinched both the FKF and KPL Top 8 trophies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201c It will be a great opportunity to represent the country at the Cecafa tournament although it\u2019s still pre-mature because this has not been in our plans. The club\u2019s management will meet tomorrow (today) and I am sure that is one of the issues that will be on the agenda,\u201d Gor Secretary General George Bwana revealed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Musonye rubbished the team\u2019s security concerns and hinted that any team withdrawing at the eleventh hour would be reprimanded by the council\u2019s executive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis (withdrawal) is an unfortunate development but it\u2019s upto the clubs to decide whether to come and gain experience against the best teams in the region or compete in the local league that takes them nowhere,\u201d a visibly angry Musonye said. \u201cThis has nothing to do with security, it\u2019s politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>and mischief as usual, but Cecafa will not be cowed and we are ready to work with the teams that are interested in football development,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sudanese clubs Al Hilal and Al Merrekh are reported to have already withdrawn from the competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ethiopian champions St George have also opted out so as to concentrate on their African Confederation Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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-may-play-in-cecafa-cup\/\"\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>Courtesy of the Nation Gor Mahia have indicated a willingness to replace Tusker at the Council of East and Central<\/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-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}