{"id":3381,"date":"2013-12-03T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2014-01-23T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T13:59:03","slug":"gor-mahia-to-play-in-mapinduzi-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-play-in-mapinduzi-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia to play in mapinduzi cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-thika-celeb13.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Premier League (KPL) Champions Gor Mahia FC and Tusker FC have been invited for the annual Mapinduzi Tournament that is set to kick off on Thursday 2 January.<\/p>\n<p>In the draw conducted today (Tuesday 3 December), Gor Mahia is in Group B alongside Tanzanian giant Simba SC, KCC from Uganda and a Zanzibari side yet to be named.<\/p>\n<p>Tusker FC is in Group A alongside champions Azam FC, Yanga FC and a Zanzibar team to be named later. Group C has Mbeya City, URA from Uganda and a Zanzibari team that would be named later too.<\/p>\n<p>The Zanzibar Football Association (ZFA) said it would name the teams from the country to take part in the tournament after a consultative meeting on Thursday 5 December.<\/p>\n<p>Azam won the tournament early this year after beating Tusker FC 2-1 in the final match played at the Amaan Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DSTV Cup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gor will end their season on the weekend of 14 December 2013 with the DSTV Super Cup clash versus Tusker FC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Night of Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will host a &#8216;night of champions&#8217; where fans can catch a glimpse of their favourite players and have dinner with them too.<\/p>\n<p>The dinner will be held Wednesday 18 December 2013 at the Laico Regency Hotel in Nairobi, where there will be an award ceremony for the players to celebrate the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>High table<\/p>\n<p>The high table will cost Ksh 10,000 with tickets for a normal seat going for Ksh 5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The dinner will start at 0700 hrs.<\/p>\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-to-play-in-mapinduzi-cup\/\"\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 of futaa.com Kenyan Premier League (KPL) Champions Gor Mahia FC and Tusker FC have been invited for the annual<\/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-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","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=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}