{"id":270,"date":"2011-12-26T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T09:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=270"},"modified":"2011-12-26T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T09:05:35","slug":"welcome-back-ibra-welcome-yusuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/welcome-back-ibra-welcome-yusuf\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back Ibra, welcome Yusuf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/kitawi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy Daily Nation<\/p>\n<p>Fan favourite Ibrahim Kitawi has made a return to Gor Mahia just six months after he left the club for Tusker FC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Frustrated under coach Zedekiah \u2018Zico\u2019 Otieno,  Kitawi moved to Tusker and won the Kenyan Premier League title with the  Ruaraka side but was eventually released last month as the club  restructures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kitawi, a product of Fisa  Academy in Nairobi\u2019s South B, has signed a one-year contract with K\u2019Ogalo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The club has also signed Thika United\u2019s Yusuf Juma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Juma, who has emerged as one of the best fullbacks  this season, earning a call-up to the national team during the East and  Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup weeks ago, has been in talks with  K\u2019Ogalo over a possible transfer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Versatile player<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The player, who can play both in central defence and on the left, is yet to finalise the transfer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor Mahia secretary, George Bwana, however said on  Saturday what remains is a few details to be sorted out regarding the  transfer before Juma becomes the club\u2019s player.<\/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\/welcome-back-ibra-welcome-yusuf\/\"\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 Daily Nation Fan favourite Ibrahim Kitawi has made a return to Gor Mahia just six months after he left<\/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-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}