{"id":8786,"date":"2016-08-24T02:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T02:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8786"},"modified":"2016-08-24T02:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T02:21:18","slug":"gor-mahia-through-to-kpl-u20-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-through-to-kpl-u20-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia through to KPL U20 Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/youth-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" \/><br \/>\nDespite what looked like a slow start, Gor Mahia appear poised to win the KPL U20 tournament. This after they beat Ushuru FC 2-0 in the semis to advance to the finals.<br \/>\nAdditional Reporting from goal.com<br \/>\nGor Mahia youth team will now face off with Mathare United in the final after knocking out Ushuru FC in semis on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia on Tuesday beat Ushuru FC 2-0 at Camp Toyoyo grounds to book slot in the KPL U-20 tournament-August edition\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>Having been aware that Mathare United were already in the final, Gor Mahia youth were upbeat for a slot of their own and they knew that Ushuru FC was the only step to the space. Coach Maurice Onyango seemed to have reminded his charges of their 3-1 victory against the taxmen in the tournament&#8217;s preliminary encounter and they stepped into the game with clear mindset of a win.<\/p>\n<p>They dominated the better part of the first half with attempts and beautiful runs from Henry Juma, Hillary Ojwang\u2019, Nahashon Thiong\u2019o and Ismail Musa, who occasionally gave Ushuru FC\u2019s backline and keeper Brian Otieno some hard time.<\/p>\n<p>In the 40th minute, Henry Juma hit past Otieno in goal to hand Gor Mahia Youth their first goal from a Hillary Ojwang\u2019 assist. The remaining minutes were a mere panic for Ushuru FC into the breather. Juma came from the tunnel to complete his brace and see Gor Mahia into the final with hopes of clinching the title for the first time ever. April edition finalists Kakamega Homeboyz and Ulinzi Stars had paved way for new champions in waiting.<\/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\/gor-mahia-through-to-kpl-u20-finals\/\"\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>Despite what looked like a slow start, Gor Mahia appear poised to win the KPL U20 tournament. This after they<\/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":[95,420],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-youth","tag-kpl-u20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","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=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}