{"id":2729,"date":"2013-07-12T02:55:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T02:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2013-07-12T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:34:06","slug":"stars-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/stars-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harambee stars were beaten 2-1 by lowly Botswana in their 3rd match of the COSAFA cup that is being held in Zambia. There were five Gor Mahia players in the starting line-up. Botswana had taken an early lead when Lemponye Tshireletso beat Jerim Onyango with a well taken free-kick in ythe 12th minute. An own goal giftted Kenya the equalizer in the 86th minute but Botswana scored the winner in injury time to beat Kenya 2-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blessing in disguise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The inability of the Stars to make the quarter finals while playing against inferior teams is a sad commentary on Kenya football. However there is no structured youth development in Kenya so shameful losses like these should no shock to any Harambee Stars fan.<\/p>\n<p>However it could be a blessing in disguise for Gor Mahia who have been providing the bulk of the players in the starting line-up. Gor Mahia players had played 4 matches in 5 days. The early return home will allow them to avoid injuries. And they can now take a well deserved rest especially Musa Mohamed who picked up an injury against Botswana.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/williamson-trains.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harambee stars early return also gives Bobby Williamson more time to work with all the players and gain familiarity with them before the league resumes.\u00a0 As part of gaining familiarity with the players, Williamson watched Gor Mahia beat Modern Coast 5-1 in a friendly match on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will take on Chemelil on Wednesday July 17 in what will be Williamsons first test. Chemelil moved the match to Nairobi in order to maximize gate collections.<\/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\/stars-eliminated\/\"\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>Harambee stars were beaten 2-1 by lowly Botswana in their 3rd match of the COSAFA cup that is being held<\/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-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}