{"id":367,"date":"2012-02-28T18:58:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=367"},"modified":"2012-02-28T19:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:52:22","slug":"okoth-and-ochieng-in-harambee-stars-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/okoth-and-ochieng-in-harambee-stars-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Okoth and Ochieng in harambee stars squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.futaa.com\/\/images\/350x300\/Ramasalim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two Gor Mahia players , Kevin Ochieng and Collins Okoth &#8220;Gattuso&#8221; have been maintained in the Harambee stars squad that is preparing for the Africa Nations cup qualifier against Togo on Wednesday. The newly signed duo of Yusuf Juma and Rama Salim have been dropped by coach Francis Kimanzi.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf Juma was one of the few bright spots during Kenya&#8217;s disastrous campaign in the 2012 CECAFA cup. So impressive was he that virtually all the top teams in the Kenya premier league were chasing his signature. His place will likely be taken by Osbourne Monday. \u00a0Rama Salim&#8217;s star appeared to be on the rise especially after his superb performance playing for the national under 23 team during their tour of West Africa recently. However Kimanzi seems to have chosen the experience of Jamal Mohammed who has also developed a level of cohesion with Dennis Oliech much like Emmanuel Ake did earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Both Rama and Yusuf are still young and if they continue to work hard and stay diligent and correct their weaknesses, they will soon become national team regulars. This is a minor setback that should only serve to motivate them to work harder.<\/p>\n<p>For Gattuso and Ochieng, it is an opportunity to test their mettle against a more talented Togolese side that has the mercurial Emmanuel Adebayor who plies his trade in the English premier league. Both players as defensive midfielders will be crucial in cutting off the supply of passes to Adebayor. Indeed the key to beating Togo is to cut off the supply of passes to Adebayor. He tends to become frustrated if he is not getting good balls. The role of Ochieng and Gattuso will be even more critical now that macDonald Mariga has made himself unavailable for the match.<\/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\/okoth-and-ochieng-in-harambee-stars-squad\/\"\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>Two Gor Mahia players , Kevin Ochieng and Collins Okoth &#8220;Gattuso&#8221; have been maintained in the Harambee stars squad that<\/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-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}