{"id":8695,"date":"2016-07-21T02:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2016-07-21T02:35:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:35:55","slug":"ze-maria-unperturbed-by-5-point-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/ze-maria-unperturbed-by-5-point-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ze Maria unperturbed by 5 point deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/tuyisenge-jerim-train.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the past three years when Gor Mahia has found itself at the top of the league by the halfway mark, the club is now 5 points adrift of league leaders Tusker. Gor Mahia have dropped four points in the last two games. Had they collected maximum points against Ushuru, they would be only one point adrift. Nevertheless, coach Ze Maria is confident that with 12 matches to go, Gor Mahia can overhaul Tusker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 12 games to play. Five points is nothing. When I arrived here, Gor Mahia were behind with seven points but at the end of the first leg, we were on same points with Tusker. So, all is not lost. We still have time and will fight,\u201d \u2018Ze Maria\u2019 told Capital Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s midfield has been particularly sub par of late due to the departure of Khalid Aucho and the absence of Collins Okoth Gattuso due to disciplinary issues and and Geoffrey Walusimbi due to injury.<\/p>\n<h3>Walusimbi getting back in shape<\/h3>\n<p>Dependable Ugandan wingback \/ midfielder Geoffrey Walusimbi is working himself back into playing shape after he sustained injuries in a traffic accident. Reports say he was a passenger in a motorbike going to training when the motorbike was involved in a collision. He sustained serious injuries and has taken time off to heal. He returned to training this past week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I have been training alone trying to ensure my body gets into the right shape before I get back to full training. I was involved in an accident a few weeks ago as we were preparing to face Tusker in KPL Top 8 competition and only a few people knew of it. &#8220;Right now I feel okay and my main aim is to work harder and get into the first team. Hopefully next week I will be training fully and who knows, I might be involved depending with the coach&#8217;s assessment and needs.&#8221; Walusimbi told goal.com.<\/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-unperturbed-by-5-point-deficit\/\"\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>Unlike the past three years when Gor Mahia has found itself at the top of the league by the halfway<\/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":[252,419],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-godfrey-walusimbi","tag-ze-maria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","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=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}