{"id":3987,"date":"2014-02-21T02:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T02:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2014-02-21T02:56:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T02:56:31","slug":"williamson-happy-with-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/williamson-happy-with-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson happy with good start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/williamson-city.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia head coach Bobby Williamson was just happy to see his charges open their Kenyan Premier League (KPL) title defence with a 2 \u2013 0 win in the clash against Nairobi City Stars on Thursday 20 February at the Nairobi City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan duo of Danny Sserunkuma and Geoffrey Kizito got the goals in the clash and speaking afterwards, the Scot acknowledged that winning the opening game is always great for the players\u2019 motivation and gives them good momentum forging forward.<\/p>\n<p><b>Good start<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With the champions set to take on the 2008 KPL champions Mathare United, he said all attention shifts to the game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>-It was a good start; it is always good for the players\u2019 momentum if you start with a win and for us it is also important because previously the opening matches have not been delivering the desired results so I am happy with today\u2019s result.<\/p>\n<p>-Three points are in the bag, now attention shifts to Mathare United, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The clash against Mathare United will be staged at the Machakos Stadium as from 1615hrs.<\/p>\n<h3>Rachier: Tuzo withdrawal will affect us<\/h3>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<p>K&#8217;ogalo chairman Ambrose Rachier reveals to Goal that shirt sponsors Tuzo will not renew their contract and says this will negatively affect the club<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Premier League champions Gor Mahia chairman Ambrose Rachier has admitted that the club will suffer financially once shirt sponsors pull the trigger next month.<\/p>\n<p>Rachier says their sponsors give them at least Sh2million per month to pay salaries for players and technical bench and the absence of this will adversely affect the club.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes barely one and half weeks after <strong>Goal<\/strong> exclusively revealed that Tuzo will not renew the one year sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now been informed from the highest level that Tuzo will not renew their sponsorship next month. We get about Sh2million from them every month and the move is therefore, likely to affect us in a big way,\u201d he told <strong>Goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe 2014 season requires a huge budget not only for the payment of players\u2019 salaries, but also for the Confederation of African Football\u2019s (Caf) Champions League which is a very expensive campaign. \u201cWe urgently need a sponsor. At the moment, we need Sh15 million to honour the forthcoming Caf fixtures. We are already running into huge amounts of debt incurred at the just-concluded preliminaries against US Bitam.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Gor Mahia are in need of a major financial boost considering that they are taking part in both KPL and Champions League.<\/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\/williamson-happy-with-good-start\/\"\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 Gor Mahia head coach Bobby Williamson was just happy to see his charges open their Kenyan Premier<\/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-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","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=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}