{"id":4575,"date":"2014-05-14T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2014-05-14T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:27:11","slug":"gor-mahia-to-shift-home-games-to-kisumu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-shift-home-games-to-kisumu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia to shift home games to Kisumu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kisumu-stadium-reco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-text\">\n<p class=\"leading\">Chairman Rachier reveals to Goal club will heed Nairobi County\u2019s orders to vacate City Stadium and move matches to Kisumu once perimeter wall is build<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia have revealed they will shift home matches to Moi Stadium in Kisumu after Nairobi County asked them to vacate City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that we are seeking for an alternative venue in Nairobi but as it stands our home matches will be played in Kisumu. We don\u2019t want to block Nairobi County\u2019s initiative to renovate the oldest facility in Kenya,\u201d Rachier told <strong>Goal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received a notice from Nairobi County to vacate City Stadium and I support the initiative because the stadium needs a new facelift. We must accept and get another venue for training and our home matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoi Kisumu is ready in terms of playing surface but perimeter wall is yet to be completed. Immediately contractors are done with perimeter wall, then we will move our matches to Kisumu. In the meantime, we are looking for an alternative venue in Nairobi and outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goal<\/strong> exclusively reported on Tuesday that Gor Mahia had been asked to to look for an alternative training ground by the management of City Stadium. The Nairobi County government plans to demolish country&#8217;s oldest Stadium and build a new facility.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia secretary Chris Omondi confirmed the same, &#8220;We have been informed by the county government to begin looking for another training ground because they want to bring down City Stadium and build a new facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no problem at all with this arrangement and believe there are numerous training grounds around the city which we can use.\u201d<\/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\/gor-mahia-to-shift-home-games-to-kisumu\/\"\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 Chairman Rachier reveals to Goal club will heed Nairobi County\u2019s orders to vacate City Stadium and move<\/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-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","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=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}