{"id":232355,"date":"2026-05-05T02:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-mathare-united-coach-is-unhappy-despite-sentencing-sofapaka-to-relegation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:51:04","slug":"kenya-why-mathare-united-coach-is-unhappy-despite-sentencing-sofapaka-to-relegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-mathare-united-coach-is-unhappy-despite-sentencing-sofapaka-to-relegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Why Mathare United Coach Is Unhappy Despite Sentencing Sofapaka to Relegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Despite condemning Sofapaka to relegation, Mathare United coach John &#8216;Guardiola&#8217; Kamau was still unsatisfied with their 2-2 draw in their FKF Premier League tie on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The tactician points out that his charges would have won the game by a big margin but for their profligacy in front of goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">&#8220;I am so disappointed because we created a lot of chances but did not convert many of them. I feel that if we did, we would have come away with a huge victory. All in all, I take the one&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605040651.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 Despite condemning Sofapaka to relegation, Mathare United coach John &#8216;Guardiola&#8217; Kamau was still unsatisfied with their 2-2 draw in their FKF Premier League tie on Saturday. The tactician points out that his charges would have won the game by a big margin but for their profligacy in front of goal. &#8220;I am so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":232356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7346,4688,430,29149,257,15628,19728,26459,254,8163,7866],"class_list":["post-232355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coach","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mathare","tag-news","tag-relegation","tag-sentencing","tag-sofapaka","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unhappy","tag-united"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/232355","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=232355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}