{"id":8291,"date":"2016-04-04T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2016-04-05T02:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T02:56:27","slug":"amos-nondi-on-target-as-kenya-u20-holds-sudan-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/amos-nondi-on-target-as-kenya-u20-holds-sudan-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Amos Nondi on target as Kenya U20 holds Sudan away"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/nondi-pass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amos Nondi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Kenya U20 national team held their Sudanese counterparts to a 1-1 draw in a match played at the El Merreikh stadium on Sunday. The match was part of the qualifiers for the 2017 Africa U-20 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Nondi who is one of the players promoted from the Gor Mahia U19 team to the senior team, and who has shown a lot of promise, scored Kenya&#8217;s equalizing goal.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Motwakil had given the hosts the lead in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The other Gor Mahia player in the starting line-up was Eric &#8220;Marcelo&#8221; Ouma, formerly of Kakamega high.\u00a0 The return leg will be later this month. The winner will to the second round to play against Malawi in June. There will be a third and final round in July.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya has never qualified for this tournament. Indeed kenya has rarely sent a team to the qualifiers. And when they do, the team is often ill-prepared.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>Starting XI:<\/b>\u00a0Timothy Odhiambo (GK), Dennis Gicheru Joseph Okumu, Collins Okumu, Erick Ouma, \u00a0Michael Mutinda, Amos Nondi, John Macharia, Michael Ochieng\u2019, Musa Masika, Nicholas Kipkurui.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subs:<\/b>\u00a0Edwin Mukolwe (GK), Kevin Owino, Vincent Wasambo, David Owino, Boniface Muchiri, Kibet Kilele, Jeffery Owiti, Eugene Mukhangula<\/p>\n<h3>Age cheating complaints<\/h3>\n<p>After the match, Sudan Football Federation officials questioned the ages of some of the Kenyan players accusing Football Kenya Federation of fielding five over age players. And according to SFA treasurer Oussama Ataelmaan, their federation will lodge a formal complaint to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). \u201cAs per CAF rules, only players born on or after January 1, 1997 are eligible to play in the tournament. But in the Kenyan team there were five players who were born before that date,\u201d said Ataelmaan. However, when contacted, FKF president Nick Mwendwa dismissed the age cheating allegations insisting that all their players were cleared by the match officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSudan can go ahead and lodge the appeal if they want. Both teams attended a pre-match meeting where all our players were cleared by the referee and match commissioner. 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