{"id":8274,"date":"2016-03-28T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T23:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2016-03-28T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T23:01:29","slug":"ze-maria-happy-with-team-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/ze-maria-happy-with-team-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ze Maria happy with team progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 791px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/zemaria-train2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"445\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Bonface Osano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Gor Mahia coach Jose Marcelo Ferreira has been working with the team for two weeks now and he is satisfied with the progress the team is making towards implementing his new philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players have shown hunger and I am happy with the group that I have. I think they are good players who can help us move forward. We pass the ball better and keep possession.\u201d said the coach to Capital FM<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, the coach arrived in Kenya and had two weeks to install his playing style before any league fixture. He has overseen three friendly matches so far, all at Camp Toyoyo. But that stadium has a new artificial surface that is unlike many other local stadia.\u00a0 However Ze Maria is promising vast improvements when Gor Mahia resumes league play this coming weekend against Kakamega Homeboyz at Mumias Complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are few areas we will improve but I believe we will be a different outfit when the league resumes,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>After playing two matches, against lower tier teams, Gor Mahia played Posta Rangers and won 1-0. Edmond Murai, who came on as a substitute, scored the goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe needed a tough friendly before the league resume to gauge our fitness. It was impressive to see the players give a good fight despite it being a build-up match,\u201d continued the coach.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Gor Mahia&#8217;s first league fixture with a revamped technical bench.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/ze-maria-happy-with-team-progress\/\"\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>New Gor Mahia coach Jose Marcelo Ferreira has been working with the team for two weeks now and he is<\/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":[419],"class_list":["post-8274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ze-maria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274","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=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}