{"id":5,"date":"2009-10-12T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-11-06T04:19:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T20:19:39","slug":"tour-of-uganda-harkens-back-to-good-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/tour-of-uganda-harkens-back-to-good-old-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Uganda harkens back to good old days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia were invited to a fully paid for trip to Uganda in which they played Express FC and SC Villa. The tour harkened back to the glory days when Gor Mahia were regional giants and routinely played against Uganda&#8217;s top teams. Fans of teams all over the region often shook in their boots at the prospect of playing Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards who between them won the CECAFA cup for nine consecutive years between 1979 and 1987.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gmfc-2009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia FC put up a brave  fight to register a 0-0 score line against Express FC on Friday, before  falling 0-1 to SC Villa at the same venue the following day.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya <a class=\"iAs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/89\/africa\/2009\/10\/13\/1557726\/kenyas-gor-mahia-put-up-a-brave-fight-in-uganda-friendlies\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"none;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.intellitxt.com\/ast\/adTypes\/2.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> side  travelled to Uganda without six regulars plus the coach Gideon Ochieng,  who was attending a week long FIFA course in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>Players Julius  Owino, Peter Opiyo and George Odhiambo were in Tunisia with the Kenyan  national team and Ibrahim Kitawi, Chris Wekesa and Baldwin Ngwa picked  up slight injuries during the training session prior to the trip.<\/p>\n<p>The match against Express FC was part of Uganda&#8217;s 47th Anniversary of Independence on  Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday friendly against  SC Villa, one of the best football clubs in Uganda who were preparing  to represent the country in next year\u2019s CAF Confederation Cup, was  a mouth-watering showdown before a sizeable crowd.<\/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\/tour-of-uganda-harkens-back-to-good-old-days\/\"\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>Gor Mahia were invited to a fully paid for trip to Uganda in which they played Express FC and SC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}