{"id":389,"date":"2012-03-17T23:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T23:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-03-17T23:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T23:58:25","slug":"okoth-to-miss-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/okoth-to-miss-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Okoth to miss derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gattuso.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>from futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants Gor Mahia have been dealt a big blow ahead of their game with league leaders AFC Leopards on Sunday 18 March with the news that one of their key players will miss the action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knee injury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kenyan international midfielder Collins <em>Gattuso<\/em> Okoth will sit out the game as he failed to recover in time from a knee injury he sustained in his team\u2019s last game against champions Tusker on Wednesday 14 March.<\/p>\n<p>The hard tackling midfielder, speaking to <em>futaa.com<\/em>, confirmed that he had failed to recover in time for the game and so will just be in the stadium to offer support to his fellows when they play the league leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not ready for Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-I have no chance of featuring in the game. Initially I thought it was just a slight injury which I could recover well to play this game but on that day when I reached at home I realized it was much more serious. It has been healing well since Wednesday but at the moment I can\u2019t say it is 100% okay for the game.<\/p>\n<p>-If all goes well I will be available for the Top 8 game between us and AFC Leopards but for the Sunday game I am out,I will just watch my teammates and support them. Hopefully we will win this one, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Okoth got injured during the game but played on up to the 90<sup><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">th<\/span><\/sup>minute as Gor Mahia slumped to two second half goals from Jockins Atudo and Patrick Kagogo after they had put in a very good show.<\/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-to-miss-derby\/\"\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>from futaa.com Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants Gor Mahia have been dealt a big blow ahead of their game with<\/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-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}