{"id":7654,"date":"2022-05-18T11:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2022-05-18T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T11:01:30","slug":"top-scorer-olunga-loses-mvp-gong-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"Top scorer Olunga loses MVP gong in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scorer with a massive 24 goals and helping his side clinch the Emir Cup, Kenyan international&nbsp;<strong>Michael Olunga&nbsp;<\/strong>lost the Qatar Football Association (QFA) Best Player of the Year award to&nbsp;<strong>Akram Afif<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afif who is a Qatari national with Tanzanian roots managed 14 goals in the just concluded season, as his side Al Sadd lifted the title and added a goal each in the Emir Cup and AFC Champions League.Olunga however walked home with the<strong>\u00a0Mansour Moftah Award<\/strong>, issued to the league\u2019s top scorer as he adds his second Golden Boot to his trophy cabinet with his first coming in his final season at Japanese outfit Kashiwa Reysol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 28-year-old extended his goal exploits in the AFC Champions League where he plundered four goals to help the team secure a place in the knockout phases of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harambee Stars captain added two goals in the Emir Cup as Duhail ended their three-year wait for the cup by drubbing Al-Gharafa 5-1 in the final which Olunga managed to get on to the scoresheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/olunga-rr-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/olunga-rr-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/olunga-rr-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 825px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scorer with a massive 24 goals and helping his side clinch the Emir Cup, Kenyan international&nbsp;Michael Olunga&nbsp;lost the Qatar Football Association (QFA) Best Player of the Year award to&nbsp;Akram Afif. Afif who is a Qatari national with Tanzanian roots managed 14 goals in the just concluded season, as his side Al Sadd lifted the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/olunga-rr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}