{"id":1585,"date":"2013-01-23T18:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2013-01-28T02:33:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:33:59","slug":"brazilian-giovani-rodriguez-departs-gor-mahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/brazilian-giovani-rodriguez-departs-gor-mahia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Giovani Rodriguez set to depart Gor Mahia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.supersport.com\/Gor-Rodriguez-300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After much fanfare and intrigue, it appears Gor Mahia are set to formally part ways with Brazilian striker Giovani Rodriguez Bissolli.<\/p>\n<p>The striker had arrived in Kenya amid much anticipation and excitement created when the club announced that it was signing a Brazilian. The club management went into overdrive calling everynews outlet to drum up publicity.<\/p>\n<p>When Rodriguez finally arrived, the multitude of fans who went to watch him at City stadium exprienced a fair amount of\u00a0cognitive dissonance. The Rodriguez they saw at City stadium is not the one that they saw in the youtube videos, one of which was posted on this column.<\/p>\n<p>The Rodriguez of the youtube videos showed immaculate technique, good movement, fluidity and vision. The Rodriguez who arrived here seemed out of shape,\u00a0 unsure of himself and lacking in technique.<\/p>\n<p>Last year with the Felixinho debacle, it was the Nigerian who arrived in Kenya to market himself. This time it was Kogalo management who went in search of Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>It is not readily clear whether it was Rodriguez who misrepresented himself or whether it was the club that did not do its homework.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When fans found that he had been playing in Bangladesh then warning signs started to sound as we all know the Bangladeshi league is not up to scratch. And if a Bangladeshi team was not interested in him then it is unlikley that he would succeed at Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>In the end however, coach Zdvarko Logarusic has apparently told various news outlets that Rodriguez is not part of his immediate plans. He told supersport &#8220;<em>I can confirm to you I will not be taking Rodriguez to the Nyanza tour as he has family issues at home and is already home sick so I have to only take only the players who are conditioned and ready for the friendlies<\/em>,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Other sources at the club indicated that since Rodriguez did not meet the club&#8217;s standards, he was being let go. The fate of his contract where he was supposed to earn sh 150,000 per month for two years remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/brazilian-giovani-rodriguez-departs-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>\u00a0 After much fanfare and intrigue, it appears Gor Mahia are set to formally part ways with Brazilian striker Giovani<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}