{"id":8940,"date":"2016-10-11T01:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T01:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2016-10-11T01:35:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T01:35:47","slug":"gor-mahia-invited-to-mapinduzi-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-invited-to-mapinduzi-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia invited to Mapinduzi cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/mapinduzi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><br \/>\nThe organizers of the Mapinduzi cup, which is held every January in Zanzibar. Kassim Haji who is the secretary general of the Zanzibar Football Association has confirmed that Gor Mahia have been invited along with Tanzanian giants Azam, Yanga and Simba, as well as URA of Uganda who are the defending champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTunaendelea kuzialika timu nyingine ili kunogesha michuano hii lakini kwa timu za nje tumezitumia mialiko Gor Mahia na URA,\u201d said Haji to Mwanaspoti, a Tanzanian sports magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The Mapinduzi cup is geared towards providing entertainment to the people of the Island of Zanzibar who rarely get to watch top class competition while affording the teams an opportunity to prepare for the season. The tournament is named after the The Zanzibar Revolution (Mapinduzi Ya Zanzibar), which occurred in 1964 and led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government by local African revolutionaries.<br \/>\nGor Mahia have been invited before but declined the opportunity. Tanzanians and Zanzibaris have a tremendous amount of respect for Gor Mahia and are keenly aware of the intense battles that Gor Mahia has waged against the Tanzanian giants since the 1970s.\u00a0 If Gor Mahia miss out on continental football in 2017, the Mapinduzi cup will be their only international showcase.<\/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-invited-to-mapinduzi-cup\/\"\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>The organizers of the Mapinduzi cup, which is held every January in Zanzibar. Kassim Haji who is the secretary general<\/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":[452],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mapinduzi-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940","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=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}