{"id":5091,"date":"2014-08-07T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T11:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2014-08-07T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:23:46","slug":"gor-mahia-will-now-play-atletico-of-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-will-now-play-atletico-of-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia will now play Atletico of Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/gm-clap-machakos-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Burundi Champions Flambeau de l&#8217;Est and Coffee of Ethiopia have pulled out of the upcoming CECAFA Club Championships, due to run from August 8 to August 24, in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>CECAFA Secretary General Nicholas Musonye confirmed that the two teams will not be taking a part in the regional tournament. Coffee, who won the Ethiopian league last season, have been replaced by Adamma FC, while Flambeau de L&#8217;est&#8217;s place goes to Atletico, who are coached by former Mukura VS head coach Cedric Kaze.<\/p>\n<p>This means Gor Mahia will now play Atletico instead of Flambeau. Atletico are currently sixth in the Burundian league. In 2013 they finished second behind Flambeau. Their last league game was against Vital O. It ended 0-0. Atletico have two players in the Burundi national team, midfielder Pierre Kwizera and goalkeeper Yvan Rugumandiye. The Burundians can be tough and considering that Burundi eliminated Kenya from the 2013 CHAN, Gor Mahia must be wary.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania&#8217;s Yanga have\u00a0 also been barred from participating in this year&#8217;s Cecafa Kagame club championship for lining up a weakened side. CECAFA officials have since replaced them with local rivals and current champions Azam.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile KCCA coach George Nsimbe continues to express confidence that his side will beat Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not scared of the Kenyans. We are prepared for the competition,\u201d said Nsimbe<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier interview, Nsimbe had said he was not worried about Gor Mahia<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe our group is tough but Gor Mahia is not a problem to me. I have been watching the Kenyan league on TV and I know how to confront them. APR is the problem because you know clubs have evolved their approach to playing,&#8221; Nsimbe said.<\/p>\n<p>One KCCA Player Gor Mahia will have to watch is striker Brian Umony.<\/p>\n<p>This is an opportunity for Gor Mahia to redeem Kenya football which has hit upon hard times at national and club level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rayon Sport (Rwanda), Yanga (Tanzania), Adamma FC (Ethiopia), Atlbara (South Sudan) and KMKM (Zanzibar).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APR (Rwanda), KCC (Uganda), Atletico (Burundi) Gor Mahia (Kenya) and Telecom (Djibouti)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VitalO (Burundi), El Merreikh (Sudan), Police (Rwanda) Benadir (Somalia).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method of qualification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Group A 1,2,3, Group B 1,2,3 Group C 1,2 qualifies to quarter finals<\/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\/gor-mahia-will-now-play-atletico-of-burundi\/\"\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>Burundi Champions Flambeau de l&#8217;Est and Coffee of Ethiopia have pulled out of the upcoming CECAFA Club Championships, due to<\/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],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-cecafa-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","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=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}