{"id":9523,"date":"2017-04-11T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:09:40","slug":"ze-maria-the-league-is-tougher-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/ze-maria-the-league-is-tougher-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ze Maria: The League is tougher in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kagere-tuyisenge-17jpg.jpg\" width=\"561\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After starting the league with an impressive 3-1 win over Kariobangi Sharks at the Thika municipal stadium in week one, Gor Mahia has found it tougher since then, scoring only one goal per game in the next three matches. Coach Ze Maria recognizes how tough the league is but he will stop at nothing to win all three titles at stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be very hard this year because many teams are playing well; but we are Gor Mahia and we have to try to win. We have taken one trophy this year but we have another three to play and we will try to take them to give to our fans,\u201d the Brazilian tactician told Capital Sport.<\/p>\n<p>What has carried Gor Mahia is the availability of better players at Ze Maria&#8217;s disposal. In 2017, Gor Mahia was hampered by the departure of several key players who had played important roles in the unbeaten season of 2015. This year the squad is more settled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year our level is a bit higher. We have good players and all of them want to play and this is a good problem for me because of competition in the group,\u201d the tactician continued.<\/p>\n<p>Kakamega Homeboyz for their part have blasted the officiating which they say cost them the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was surprised to see no action taken against Boniface Oluoch by referee Andrew Juma after the keeper dangerously tackled our striker Wycliffe Ochomo in that match.&#8221; said Gilbert Alushula to goal.com.<\/p>\n<p>The official insinuated that Juma favoured Kogalo because he is a brother to Boniface Oluoch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very unprofessional for a referee of Andrew Juma\u2019s caliber to allow open mistakes and I think he should not be appointed to take charge of Gor Mahia matches in the future,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<h3>Video Highlight<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U42r1rWz5ts?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\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-the-league-is-tougher-in-2017\/\"\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>After starting the league with an impressive 3-1 win over Kariobangi Sharks at the Thika municipal stadium in week one,<\/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-9523","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\/9523","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=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9528,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}