{"id":5163,"date":"2014-08-14T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:30:00","slug":"gor-mahia-determined-to-fight-for-quarter-final-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-determined-to-fight-for-quarter-final-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia determined to fight for quarter-final place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cecafafootball.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gor-kagame-cup-360x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Gor Mahia staring early elimination from the 2014 CECAFA club cup, the players and officials still have enough resolve in them to keep fighting.\u00a0 New signing Arthur Ssemazzi has stated that the team will fight to the very end and do whatever they can do to ensure a quarter-final place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are determined than never before and we are well aware of what that game means to our chances,\u201d Semazzi told Kawowo Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand a good result will put us back into the group mathematics and we shall go for it,\u201d Semazzi who has so far featured in both losses as a substitute stressed.<\/p>\n<p>On why the team has not done well so far, Ssemazi stated that the players have done their best but results simply have not come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys have put their bodies on the line and the togetherness in camp is unrivaled but good results have just eluded us. To me, it\u2019s down to luck that we are in such a situation,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<h3>John Pesa echoes Ssemazi sentiments<\/h3>\n<p>Vice Chairman and leader of the travelling delegation John Pesa also re-iterated that Gor Mahia are still not out of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This competition is like a marathon. It is never won in the first minutes, but until the final kilometre. Mathematically therefore, we still have a chance, I believe we will sail through&#8221; , he said the the CECAFA website<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team has been given all the support, they played well in their second game, but luck was not with us. Our best striker Dan Sserunkuma had a bad day at work and wasted three clear, one-on-one opportunities he had with the opponent\u2019s goalkeeper, he added.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also hit the side post and the cross bar. The one chance they had was a goal and that changed everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To be assured of a quarter-final place, Gor Mahia need to win both their remaining matches and hope that results of other matches go their way.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Current Group B standings<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"190\"><strong>Team<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>Pld<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>W<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>D<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>L<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>GF<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>GA<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>GD<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"28\"><strong>Pts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kampala C.C.A.<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>+1<\/td>\n<td><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Djibouti T\u00e9l\u00e9com<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>+1<\/td>\n<td><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A.P.R.<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>+1<\/td>\n<td><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Atl\u00e9tico Olympic<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>?1<\/td>\n<td><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gor Mahia<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td><strong>0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gor\u00a0 Mahia will take on APR of Rwanda on Friday August 15 then take on Djibouti Telecom on August 17.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0Rama is welcome Back says Ngala<\/h3>\n<p>Gor Mahia eputy secretary Ronald Ngala has indicated that Gor Mahia have no issues with Rama Salim and that the order is open for him should he wish to return to the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is disappointing that he failed to get a club in South Africa and now we are sorry for him. We advised him to extend his contract with us before he left but he declined. However, we are still ready to welcome him back and keep him till the end of the season.\u00a0 \u201cHe had a good striking partnership with Dan Ssserunkuma and we still appreciate this and would like to see him again doing the same.&#8221; said Ngala to goal.com<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the South African trials, Rama&#8217;s stint with a Qatari second tier side also ended badly when he was suspended for six months for fighting a team-mate who fouled him during training.<\/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-determined-to-fight-for-quarter-final-place\/\"\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>With Gor Mahia staring early elimination from the 2014 CECAFA club cup, the players and officials still have enough resolve<\/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":[175,159,160,177,176],"class_list":["post-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arthur-ssemazi","tag-gor-mahia-cecafa-cup","tag-gor-mahia-kagame-cup","tag-john-pesa","tag-ronald-ngala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","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=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}