{"id":3825,"date":"2014-01-31T03:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T03:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2014-02-04T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:23:46","slug":"calabar-voted-vice-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/calabar-voted-vice-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Calabar voted Vice Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/owino-chemelil.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Goal Kenya Player of the Year takes up the task from Moses \u2018Dube\u2019 Odhiambo and will deputize for goalkeeper Jerim Onyango in upcoming season<\/p>\n<p>2013 Goal Kenya Player of the Year David \u2018Calabar\u2019 Owino has been appointed the deputy captain at Kenya Premier League champions Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>Owino, who beat a host of players among them Southampton midfielder Victor Wanyama to the inaugural trophy, replaces Moses \u2018Dube\u2019 Odhiambo and will deputize for goalkeeper Jerim Onyango in coming season.<\/p>\n<p>Odhiambo is among players to have been released by <em>K\u2019Ogalo<\/em> and has since left for trials in South Africa with unknown club after penning a deal with Thika United.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Gor Mahia management more so the technical bench for giving me the opportunity to be deputy captain. I was not expecting to be bestowed with such a great honor but I now expect and promise to do my best,\u201d Owino told <strong>Goal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a huge season coming up and our target is to do well in Caf Champions League and also make sure that we retain the premiership title. We have a good team now and with the arrival of new signings, we are ready to deliver positive results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia face Sofapaka in Kenya Charity Cup tournament on Sunday at Nyayo Stadium. The other match will pit GOtv Shield Cup champions AFC Leopards\u2019 against Mathare United.<\/p>\n<h3>Jerim Confident of lifting Charity cup<\/h3>\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo captain and goalkeeper reveals to Goal that they have what it takes to clinch Kenya Charity Cup trophy at Nyayo Stadium on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia captain Jerim Onyango believes the team has what it takes to win Sunday&#8217;s Kenya Power Charity Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The team takes on defending champions in the opener and Onyango remains confident they will get past their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we reached the final. This time around we are looking at lifting the trophy. The fact is we have a strong squad that is capable of winning the trophy,\u201d Onyango told <strong>Goal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia lost to Sofapaka on post-match penalties in the final of last year&#8217;s tournament which was also the inaugural edition.<\/p>\n<p>Onyango says winning this year&#8217;s edition remains important to Gor Mahia as it will boost their performance in the first round of their continental assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Gor Mahia and Sofapaka, other teams that will take part in the Charity Cup are AFC Leopards\u2019 and Mathare United, who play in the other semi-final.<\/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\/calabar-voted-vice-captain\/\"\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 goal.com The 2013 Goal Kenya Player of the Year takes up the task from Moses \u2018Dube\u2019 Odhiambo 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-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","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=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}