{"id":175711,"date":"2024-07-02T06:35:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T04:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gor-mahia-appoint-brazilian-as-new-head-coach-zico-returns\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T04:35:47","slug":"kenya-gor-mahia-appoint-brazilian-as-new-head-coach-zico-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gor-mahia-appoint-brazilian-as-new-head-coach-zico-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gor Mahia Appoint Brazilian As New Head Coach, Zico Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Record FKF Premier League champions Gor Mahia have appointed Brazilian tactician Leonardo Martins Neiva as the club&#8217;s new head coach following the exit of Irishman Jonathan McKinstry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Neiva was unveiled by the club Monday evening, and is expected to start his job with immediate effect as K&#8217;Ogalo prepare for a return to Continental football as well as the CECAFA Club Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">&#8220;It is a big pleasure and a great honor to coach this giant of Kenya and east Africa. I am sure that we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407020028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Record FKF Premier League champions Gor Mahia have appointed Brazilian tactician Leonardo Martins Neiva as the club&#8217;s new head coach following the exit of Irishman Jonathan McKinstry. Neiva was unveiled by the club Monday evening, and is expected to start his job with immediate effect as K&#8217;Ogalo prepare for a return to Continental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":175712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,12489,10086,7346,8830,4688,430,19510,257,5068,254,48929],"class_list":["post-175711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoint","tag-brazilian","tag-coach","tag-gor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mahia","tag-news","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zico"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}