{"id":11416,"date":"2018-10-26T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=11416"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:22:35","slug":"gor-mahia-sign-kipkurui-and-ogweno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-sign-kipkurui-and-ogweno\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia sign Kipkurui and Ogweno"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kipk.jpg\" width=\"368\" height=\"490\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kipkurui with CEO Aduda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia signed two players as they prepare for the 2018-2019 season which starts in about 35 days. The two players are striker Nicholas Kipkurui from Zoo Kericho and Pascal Ogweno, a defender from Kariobangi Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<br \/>\nGor Chief Executive Officer Lodvick Aduda confirmed that Ogweno and Kipkirui, put pen-to-paper to three and four year deals respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Aduda believes Kipkirui will be a good addition to the Gor Mahia striking force if the 13 goals he scored for Zoo during the just concluded season is anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have just captured Kipkirui who we believe is a top striker and will be a great addition to our striking force. We wish him the best of luck as he joins a team of several other talented stars,\u201d Aduda said.<\/p>\n<p>Ogweno joins the champions on the Bosman rule after he was released by Sharks two months before his contract lapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The duo joins Kenneth Muguna and Shafik Batambuze who already reported to training on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo are reportedly in pursuit of Bandari winger Abdallah Hassan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am flying to Mombasa to seal another deal with a top player whose name I cannot reveal now and should be able to make an official announcement by mid-day,\u201d hinted Aduda.<\/p>\n<p>He further added that technical bench has already identified players who will either be dropped or sent on loan but this would be made public at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Gor resumed training on Thursday ahead of their trip to the United Kingdom to play English Premier League outfit Everton on November 6.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-sign-kipkurui-and-ogweno\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia signed two players as they prepare for the 2018-2019 season which starts in about 35 days. The two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,112,577,578],"class_list":["post-11416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-signings","tag-gor-mahia-transfers","tag-nicholas-kipkurui","tag-pascal-ogweno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11418,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416\/revisions\/11418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}