{"id":2808,"date":"2013-07-30T02:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T02:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2013-07-30T02:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T02:44:58","slug":"kevin-keegan-son-of-kogalo-legend-making-waves-with-oval-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/kevin-keegan-son-of-kogalo-legend-making-waves-with-oval-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Keegan: Son of Kogalo legend making waves with oval ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Keegan, the son of the legendary Gor Mahia winger Sammy Onyango Jogoo was last weekend named the Most Valuable Player at the Masaku sevens held in Machakos this weekend. He led his team, Lunch Bar Harlequins to victory after beating Homeboyz RFC of Nairobi in the final.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kenyapage.net\/rugby\/images\/keegan-rombo-masaku13.jpg\" width=\"361\" height=\"251\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keegan received MVP trophy from rugby legend Edward Rombo<br \/>Image courtesy of Arigi @ Ministry of Rugby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLast year I did not play since I was the Kenya Sevens camp, this year I came and I was named captain. I did not have any special plans but just to play my game and I am happy it bore fruit by being named the tournament\u2019s MVP.\u201d Keegan told michezoafrika.com<\/p>\n<p>Ever since he appeared on the rugby scene 2 years ago, Keegan has proven himself an extremely capable rugby player.At the time his coach at Impala Innocent Simiyu described him as \u201cAn exciting playmaker just waiting to exhale&#8221;. Keegan is now on his way to fulfilling his potential. He has represented the Kenya national sevens team at various tournaments. In fifteen a side rugby, he is often slotted at full back and has excelled in the Kenya cup and Bamburi Super series.<\/p>\n<p>He will be hard pressed to emulate the exploits of his father, one of the true legends of Gor Mahia and Kenya football.<\/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\/kevin-keegan-son-of-kogalo-legend-making-waves-with-oval-ball\/\"\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>Kevin Keegan, the son of the legendary Gor Mahia winger Sammy Onyango Jogoo was last weekend named the Most Valuable<\/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-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}