{"id":1425,"date":"2013-01-15T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-01-27T02:13:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T02:13:42","slug":"logarusic-no-sacred-cows-at-gor-mahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/old-news\/logarusic-no-sacred-cows-at-gor-mahia\/","title":{"rendered":"Logarusic : No sacred cows at Gor Mahia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/loga-bob-8-12.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Daily Nation<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Brazilian striker Giovanni Rodriguez will have to fight for a position at Gor Mahia like other players if he is signed up, coach Zdravko Logarusic has said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rodriguez, who arrived in the country on Sunday, is expected to attend his first training session with the club this morning and coach Logarusic has said the Brazilian will have to prove himself on the pitch before he is signed up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt is good he is here, but he must work hard on training. He has to prove that he is the kind of player we are looking for,\u201d said Logarusic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIf he is not better than Rama Salim, Dan Serunkuma or Paul Kiongera, we will not recruit him. We will put him on the next plan back to Brazil. He has to have something special for us to take him but we will not treat him special,\u201d added the coach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rodriguez says he is at Gor Mahia to win trophies and wants to become the first ever Brazilian to play for a Kenyan club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Keen interest in Gor<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI have followed Gor Mahia keenly over the last year. I like the passion in the team and I think I am in the right place. I hope to prove myself on training and hopefully sign a contract with the club,\u201d said the Brazilian through an interpreter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cMany will ask why a Brazilian should come to Kenya to play football. Yes, it\u2019s interesting, but I love Africa and I love Kenya. There has to be a first and I want to be the first Brazilian to play football in Kenya. I am no tourist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Giovanni, has played for several clubs in Brazil, says he cannot wait to wear Gor Mahia\u2019s jersey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Meanwhile, hardworking midfielder midfielder Moses Odhiambo is back at the Gor Mahia after failing to clinch a deal with a club in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Odhiambo, voted the best midfielder at Gor last season, was expected to join Salalah of the United Arab Emirates but the deal fell through and he was back at Gor\u2019s training camp on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/old-news\/logarusic-no-sacred-cows-at-gor-mahia\/\"\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>Courtesy of Daily Nation Brazilian striker Giovanni Rodriguez will have to fight for a position at Gor Mahia like other<\/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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","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=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}