{"id":2969,"date":"2013-09-09T02:21:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2013-09-08T02:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T02:46:49","slug":"move-towards-youth-development-commendable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/move-towards-youth-development-commendable\/","title":{"rendered":"Move towards youth development commendable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/kevin-omondi.jpg\" width=\"453\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based on recent reports, it appears the club has started to take some tentative steps towards establishing a youth structure. This move has been a long time coming. In the past there has been a lot of rhetoric about creating youth development structures but nothing has ever happened.<\/p>\n<p>Brookside Dairies, which sponsors both Gor Mahia and Thika United has undertaken to bring the best players from the East Africa school games to Nairobi for trials.<\/p>\n<p>Tobias Ochiel has been appointed as the chief scout. We are establishing a very clear youth structure in our team and a bulk of these players will be the first batch, Ochiel told <i>futaa.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to futaa.com, the players selected are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><b>Upper Hill<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cavine Odongo<\/p>\n<p><b>St Marys<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dan Birikwalire (left-back), Samuel Mwanje (Central Midfielder) and Faruk Umia (Attacking midfielder).<\/p>\n<p><b>Standard High School<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ddumba Dennis (Left-back), Godfrey Ochan (Central Defender), Kafiru Shafa (Striker) and Kabeja Idrissa (midfielder).<\/p>\n<p><b>Kathungi High School<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Kilonzi (Goalkeeper)<\/p>\n<p><b>Glinti<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wildi Dahiya (Midfielder)<\/p>\n<p><b>Lord Baden Powell<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hamisi Mwiny (midfielder)<\/p>\n<p>Dan Birikwalirwa, Samuel Mwanje, Dennis Ddumba and Hamisi Mwinyi have been selected for trials with the senior team while the rest will join the youth team according to Ochiel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Its worth noting that these are just tentative steps. A real youth scheme should have several levels below the U19 level such as U16 and U13. It is much easier to instill proper fundamentals in younger players when it is easy to rid them of bad habits.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, there are several talented youth all over the country who did not participate in the East Africa school games. Gor Mahia should revive the scouting network they had in the 1970s and 1980s which did a wonderful job of identifying talented players at the grassroots and sending them to Kogalo.<\/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\/move-towards-youth-development-commendable\/\"\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>Based on recent reports, it appears the club has started to take some tentative steps towards establishing a youth structure.<\/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-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","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=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}