{"id":2784,"date":"2013-07-24T02:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T02:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2013-07-24T02:31:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T02:31:01","slug":"gor-mahia-still-has-no-u19-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-still-has-no-u19-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia still has no U19 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-wave.jpg\" width=\"408\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Premier League Under 19 tournament is set to kick off on August 10, which is about two and half weeks away. According to futaa.com, Gor Mahia have not assembled a team yet.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Bobby Ogolla told the blog ; &#8220;We don\u2019t have a team yet, still trying to put it up. We must participate in the tournament<i>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The inaugural KPL U19 tournament was held in 2011. It was won by Thika United, which is the only team in the league that has any semblance of youth development.\u00a0 The tournament was not held in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Tusker have been in talks with talent hub FISA academy to represent them in the tournament. KCB announced that they will be holding trials.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Hill school which is a UNICEF talent development center recently won the Metropolitan schools football games. Back in February, Gor Mahia announced a partnership with Upper Hill in which several players from the school would be attached to Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">Flanked by the school principal Peter Orero, the players were introduced to Gor Mahia head coach Zdravko Logarusic at the Nyayo Stadium. Orero praised Gor Mahia, saying it\u2019s a good side capable of giving them adequate exposure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However those plans appear to have been abandoned.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-still-has-no-u19-team\/\"\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>The Kenya Premier League Under 19 tournament is set to kick off on August 10, which is about two and<\/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-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}