{"id":4100,"date":"2014-03-06T02:21:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:25:13","slug":"shakava-i-feel-valued-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/shakava-i-feel-valued-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakava: I feel valued here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/team-dance-14.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of mobifootball.com<br \/>\nGor Mahia defender Haron Shakava is proud of the way he has adapted quickly to life at the Kenya Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster joined from Kakamega Homeboyz during the off-season and has made a significant contributions in both domestic and CAF assignments for the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I got the chance to join Gor Mahia, I took it as an opportunity to face a bigger challenge and I&#8217;m relishing every moment,&#8221; Shakava said in an interview with The Star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always a challenge as a footballer to try different things and integrate into another club. (But) it hasn&#8217;t been difficult adapting here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Football here is good and the team members are great too. I&#8217;m learning more from my team-mates and I&#8217;m very happy with how my few months here have been, especially the last one month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The youngster has made five appearances in the KPL and CAF Champions League, where has netted twice in his team&#8217;s bid to reach the second round of the African competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel valued here and the manager gives me confidence with every selection and within the team I have a responsibility that I love having,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Little by little, I hope to keep improving and I hope to help the team as much as possible.&#8221;<\/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\/shakava-i-feel-valued-here\/\"\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 mobifootball.com Gor Mahia defender Haron Shakava is proud of the way he has adapted quickly to life at<\/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-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","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=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}