{"id":235227,"date":"2026-06-03T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-gor-coach-akonnor-is-breathing-sigh-of-relief-after-winning-premier-league-title\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:57:24","slug":"kenya-why-gor-coach-akonnor-is-breathing-sigh-of-relief-after-winning-premier-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-why-gor-coach-akonnor-is-breathing-sigh-of-relief-after-winning-premier-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Why Gor Coach Akonnor Is Breathing Sigh of Relief After Winning Premier League Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Having clinched his second career title, Gor Mahia head coach Charles Akonnor has baptised the K&#8217;Ogalo fanbase as the &#8216;most demanding&#8217; he has worked under.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Ghanaian says defeat is a word that does not exist in the fans&#8217; vocabulary, admitting he has had to work extra hard to gratify their demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;I think with Gor Mahia it&#8217;s very demanding&#8230;It&#8217;s positive but it can be seen as crazy. They don&#8217;t understand defeat and how you are defeated. Sometimes you need to read meanings behind the scenes,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030520.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>Having clinched his second career title, Gor Mahia head coach Charles Akonnor has baptised the K&#8217;Ogalo fanbase as the &#8216;most demanding&#8217; he has worked under. The Ghanaian says defeat is a word that does not exist in the fans&#8217; vocabulary, admitting he has had to work extra hard to gratify their demands. &#8220;I think with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":235228,"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":[258,256,39922,22951,7346,8830,4688,430,7027,257,6996,10864,29455,254,6675,15104],"class_list":["post-235227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akonnor","tag-breathing","tag-coach","tag-gor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-league","tag-news","tag-premier","tag-relief","tag-sigh","tag-south-africa-today","tag-title","tag-winning"],"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\/235227","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=235227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}