{"id":5687,"date":"2014-11-22T03:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2014-11-22T03:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T03:11:49","slug":"gor-mahia-battles-to-retain-cranes-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-battles-to-retain-cranes-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia battles to retain Cranes Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/ugandan-trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It cannot be gainsaid that the Ugandan Cranes trio of Dan Sserunkuma, Godfrey Walusimbi and Geoffrey Kizito have played pivital roles in Gor Mahia&#8217;s success in retaining the league in 2014.Their superb play on the field, professionalism and commitment\u00a0 has been noticed by fans and highly appreciated. They have set an excellent example for the rest of the playing unit. But their success on the field has also attracted the eyes of other teams.<\/p>\n<p>Club official Ronald Ngala, fresh from his success at the KPL awards indicated that the club is busy trying to retain the three players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSserenkuma has showed willingness to remain at the club while Kizito has given us some conditions that we believe can be met,\u201d Gor Mahia\u2019s Deputy Secretary General Ronald Ngala said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in discussions with the two players and we strongly believe they\u2019ll be with us next season. Our fans should not be worried, we will have a better squad next season,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the other players who are out of contract are willing to renew and therefore there\u2019s no need to worry. we\u2019ve got this,\u201d he\u00a0 said to kplchat.com<\/p>\n<p>Kizito attended trials with a Vietnamese side while Sserunkuma has attracted the eyes of Sudanese side Al Ahly Shendy, Simba or Tanzania and Kaizer Chiefs of South Africa.<\/p>\n<h3>Cranes Eliminated<\/h3>\n<p>All three players features as Uganda Cranes suffered yet another heartbreak in their attempt top qualify for the Africa cup of nations after a 36 year hiatus. Of all the teams in CECAFA, Uganda and Rwanda have taken the longest to qualify for Africa&#8217;s premier event.<\/p>\n<p>All three received poor ratings from Uganda&#8217;s newspaper the monitor:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Godfrey Walusimbi 3<\/strong><br \/>\nGot early jitters at left-back from Ibrahima Conte, settled in briefly, but later ran out of ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geoffrey Kizito 4<\/strong><br \/>\nHe just had a bad day in office. Baba imposes his presence on games but his passes were mostly square and the Gor Mahia player barely found midfield partner Mawejje.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Sserunkuma 4 (Substitute)<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen Mwesigwa\u2019s actions wrecked the plan, dread-locked Sserunkuma found it hard to link up from the middle. Still, he was an improvement on Miya.<\/p>\n<p>The ratings from Kawowo sports were only slightly better:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Godfrey Walusimbi 5.0: <\/strong>Started the game on a slow note being turned in and out by man of the match Ibrahima Traore. Lucky not to be booked after a number of fouls but grew in stature in the second half though his side was more of an avenue for the Syli Nationale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geoffrey \u2018Baba\u2019 Kizito 5.0: <\/strong>Struggled against the quick passing Guineans and provided less cover to the backline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Sserunkuma 6.0: <\/strong>Came on for Farouk Miya and gave Uganda some momentum in attack but it was too little too late. He is the only player who registered a shot on target for Cranes.<\/p>\n<p>All in all the Cranes had a bad day at the office with the exception of keeper Dennis Onyango who was rated highly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\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-battles-to-retain-cranes-trio\/\"\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>It cannot be gainsaid that the Ugandan Cranes trio of Dan Sserunkuma, Godfrey Walusimbi and Geoffrey Kizito have played pivital<\/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":[71,249,252],"class_list":["post-5687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dan-sserunkuma","tag-geoffrey-kizito","tag-godfrey-walusimbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687","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=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}