{"id":7834,"date":"2016-01-07T03:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2016-01-07T03:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:39:36","slug":"olunga-nominated-for-soya-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/olunga-nominated-for-soya-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Olunga nominated for SOYA awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9vQ_1hljKTY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nKenyan footballers are very rarely nominated for the Kenya Sportsman of the year award. For 2015 however Gor Mahia ace Michael Olunga is among 5 other sportsmen nominated for the annual award. Olunga had a phenomenal year in 2015. He was the second leading scorer in the premier league and scored more goals than anyone in international games. He was also top scorer in the 2015 CECAFA cup.<\/p>\n<p>Olunga will have to compete with Track athletes Asbel Kiprop, Ezekiel Kemboi and Julius Yego.\u00a0 Also nominated if hockey goalkeeper Linus Kipkemboi.<\/p>\n<p>Olunga was nominated in the most promising sportsman category in 2013. Other Gor Mahia players who have been nominated in the past are George Odhiambo (2010) and Dan Sserunkuma (2012). In 2009, Blackberry was voted the most promising sportsman. And in 2010, Zedekiah Otieno was voted coach of the year after he steered a youthful Gor Mahia side to the brink of winning the league.<\/p>\n<p>This year, on the women&#8217;s side the list includes the top lady shooter of 2015 Nune Bonaya, top marathoner Florence Kipgalat and Gladys Cherono.<\/p>\n<p>Bonaya just fell short of making history when she finished second in the Kenya Open Bisley tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Attacker Mercy Moim, Malkia\u2019s strikers top scorer from the world grand prix who recently signed for a Finnish club and Naomi Wafula, the leading lady golfer complete the women\u2019s list.<\/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\/olunga-nominated-for-soya-awards\/\"\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>Kenyan footballers are very rarely nominated for the Kenya Sportsman of the year award. For 2015 however Gor Mahia ace<\/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":[248,264],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-michael-olunga","tag-soya-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","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=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}