{"id":5421,"date":"2014-10-01T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2014-10-01T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:37:47","slug":"congratulations-to-the-gor-mahia-u19-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/congratulations-to-the-gor-mahia-u19-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the Gor Mahia U19 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/gm-u19-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations are in order to the players and coaches of the Gor Mahia U19 team. Three cheers also to the fans and officials especially the Gor Mahia fans foundation whose efforts have been vital in sustaining the team.<\/p>\n<p>They finished first in the Nairobi county league with an unbeaten record. They won nine and drew only one of their ten \u00a0league matches \u00a0thus finishing top of \u00a0Zone C table with 28 points from 10 matches. Impressive considering that this year was their first time playing. Gor Mahia U19 will now play the winners from the six other zones in the Provincial League promotion play-off starting 21st October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, they played the Italian U18 team and acquitted themselves well despite losing. This is impressive considering that it is a club with limited selection options and limited resources playing against a youth team of a country that is a giant in football and has advanced coaching and limitless resources. In friendly matches, Gor Mahia U19 thrashed other youth teams such as NYTA. Ramsey Olinga has earned a call up to the Uganda U21 team while a number of other players have impressed new coach Frank Nutall enough to be featured with senior players in a friendly.<\/p>\n<p>With Gor Mahia facing an uncertain financial future, a solid youth team will be crucial since the club cannot spend big money on players. Developing youngstars instead of depending on groups like FISA academy will also mean that when a player transfers overseas, Gor mahia gets most of the transfer fees.<\/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\/congratulations-to-the-gor-mahia-u19-team\/\"\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>Congratulations are in order to the players and coaches of the Gor Mahia U19 team. Three cheers also to the<\/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-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","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=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}