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Defending champions Githurai All Stars rallied from a goal down to pip Kawasaki 2-1 to retain the Sakaja Super Cup at Dandora Stadium on Friday, December 20th, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n However in the women\u2019s category, Shrink Park Starlets won via a disqualification of their rivals South C Queens for fielding ineligible players in the semi finals to walk away with Ksh1 million.<\/p>\n The men\u2019s match was a repeat of last year\u2019s finals where Githurai All Stars met Kawasaki in the finals and won.<\/p>\n The match kicked off with a fast paced speed which was punctuated by a tale of miser chances in the opening minutes.<\/p>\n Sedrin Achweya\u00a0 broke the deadlock in the 17th minute by<\/p>\n dribbling past the Githurai defenders after controlling a cross in the box from Hector Madegwa to beat goalie Ishmael Otieno with a low shot.<\/p>\n Ten minutes later, Madegwa was on the mark for Kawasaki by looping the ball over Githurai goalkeeper but was ruled offside to the relief of the defending champions.<\/p>\n Edwin N\u2019gang\u2019a put the defending champions on level terms by deflecting capitalizing on a defensive blunder by Collins Otieno to tip the ball over the Kawasaki custodian Kassim Maanga to equalise in the 50th minute.<\/p>\n The tension packed saw the match get physical with Kawasaki\u2019s Robert Sande receiving the first booking of the match with a yellow card after a dangerous tackle on Kennedy Odhiambo in the 61st minute.<\/p>\n The tackle resulted to Odhiambo being stretchered off the field with an injury and got replaced by Douglas Nyaosi.<\/p>\n Kawasaki were reduced to ten men after Lennon Amugoza was given marching orders with a straight red card in the 77th minute for using abusive language against the referee.<\/p>\n Before the dust settled down, Hasan Masoud scored from a goal mouth melee from a corner to seal Kawasaki\u2019s fate and have Githurai retain the title in the 82nd minute.<\/p>\n Githurai were gifted with Ksh3 million winner\u2019s prize money as Kawasaki settled for Ksh2 million set aside for the runners up.<\/p>\n In a post match interview, Githurai All Stars captain Kelvin Njuguna said it was unbelievable that they fought from behind to win.<\/p>\n \u201cThat goal scared us but we got composed and took the game to their half and that\u2019s why we won,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n Njuguna attributed the win to God and said it will motivate them in tackling the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) division 2 league they are featuring.<\/p>\n Kawasaki team manager Garang Maingi accepted the results and said they will live to fight for another day.<\/p>\n Awards<\/p>\n Most Valuable player: Robert Sunday (Kawasaki)<\/p>\n Most Promising player Jermaine Mukhatia (Shauri Moyo United)<\/p>\n Best Goalkeeper: Ishmael Otieno (Githurai All Stars)<\/p>\n Best fan base: Shauri Moyo United<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Githurai All Stars edge out Kawasaki Sports to retain Sakaja Super Cup<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Defending champions Githurai All Stars rallied from a goal down to pip Kawasaki 2-1 to retain the Sakaja Super Cup at Dandora Stadium on Friday, December 20th, 2024. However in the women\u2019s category, Shrink Park Starlets won via a disqualification of their rivals South C Queens for fielding ineligible players in the semi finals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}