{"id":5019,"date":"2014-07-29T23:06:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T23:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2014-07-29T23:06:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T23:06:26","slug":"gor-mahia-cecafa-squad-presented-with-glorious-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-cecafa-squad-presented-with-glorious-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia CECAFA Squad presented with glorious chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/team-clap-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"311\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players applaud fans before the derby. Left to Right: Kizito, Musa Mohamed, Jerim Onyango, Patrick Oboya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were no major surprises when Gor Mahia named the squad that will do duty at the CECAFA club cup. All the key players were named in the squad published in the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Some second tier players have been surprisingly left out including Camerounian Simon Pierre who scored a crucial goal against Nakuru All Stars recently. Also missing is another big name: George Odhiambo &#8220;Blackberry&#8221;.\u00a0 Although many will have difficulty coming to terms with the fact that the former fan favourite is now a second tier player. What Blackberry needs most now is playing time to regain his confidence. Form is temporary but class is permanent.<\/p>\n<p>On the technical bench, Bobby Ogolla was not named likely because he has not fully recovered. His vast experience would have been useful given that he has played in this tournament at least five times and was in all the Gor Mahia squads that won the CECAFA club cup (1980, 1981 and 1985).<\/p>\n<p>Indeed Bobby was a legend all over the CECAFA region and any Ugandan, Tanzanian, Zambian or Malawian knew Bobby. In fact I have met many Tanzanians to this day who still remember Bobby&#8217;s exploits on the CECAFA stage.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the good news is that all the key players are available and seemingly injury free. Its a glorious opportunity for Kogalo to win a tournament they last won 29 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a glorious chance for these players to showcase their skills and gain regional glory and fame.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Oboya who has been unfit and out of shape often is now slowly working his way back to shape. This tournament provides a platform for him to accomplish his stated goal of returning to the national team.<\/p>\n<p>For Timothy Otieno, its a chance to build on his fast rising reputation that has seen him named to the national team rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers<\/strong>: Jerim Onyango, David Juma, Joel Bataro. Defenders : Godfrey Walusimbi, Kevin Oluoch, Musa Mohamed, Haron Shakava, Kennedy Opiyo, David Owino, Charles Bruno.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Joseph Kariuki, Baba Kizito, Eric Ochieng, Collins Okoth, Simon Mburu, Daniel Onyango, Timothy Otieno.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Strikers;<\/strong> Dan Sserunkuma, Patrick Oboya, Arthur Ssemazi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Technical bench:<\/strong> Bobby Williamson (head coach), Frank Ouma (team manager), Iddi Salim (goalkeeper trainer), Patrick Opiyo (team doctor).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Head of delegation: John Pesa.<\/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-cecafa-squad-presented-with-glorious-chance\/\"\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>There were no major surprises when Gor Mahia named the squad that will do duty at the CECAFA club cup.<\/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":[159,160],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-cecafa-cup","tag-gor-mahia-kagame-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","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=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}