{"id":4473,"date":"2014-04-28T03:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T03:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4473"},"modified":"2014-04-28T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:15:35","slug":"sserunkuma-wins-top-uganda-sports-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/sserunkuma-wins-top-uganda-sports-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sserunkuma wins top Uganda sports award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/sseru-thika-top8-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"articletext\">\n<p>Gor Mahia striker Dan Sserunkuma was named the Uganda Sports Press Association (USPA) Player of the Year for 2013 in an awards gala that saw 44 other awards dished out at a gala held at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala on Saturday 26 April.<\/p>\n<p>Sserunkuma was not present at the gala, presided over by the Ugandan National assembly Speaker Rebecca Kadaga but his award was picked on his behalf by the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) CEO and former Ugandan international Edgar Watson.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key man<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The diminutive striker has been a key player for Gor Mahia since joining from Nairobi City Stars in mid 2012 and was instrumental in<i> K\u2019Ogalo\u2019s<\/i> run as they ended an 18 year wait for the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) title in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 edition of the USPA Awards held on Saturday was the 28<sup>th<\/sup> since its inception.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/sserunkuma-wins-top-uganda-sports-award\/\"\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 striker Dan Sserunkuma was named the Uganda Sports Press Association (USPA) Player of the Year<\/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":[71],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dan-sserunkuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","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=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}