{"id":1612,"date":"2013-01-25T01:34:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T01:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2013-01-25T01:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T01:34:17","slug":"gor-mahia-must-honor-contract-giovanis-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-must-honor-contract-giovanis-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia must honor contract : Giovani&#8217;s agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/rodriguez-juggle.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<p>In a move that does not come as a surprise, Bernard Opondo, the agent responsible for bringing Rodriguez to Kenya has insisted that Gor Mahia must honor the 2 year contract that Rodriguez signed. According to goal.com, Opondo also hit out at coach Zdvarko Logarusic for claiming that Rodriguez was home sick. According to Opondo, there is a scheme by certain officials to rid the club of Rodriguez through back door channels.<\/p>\n<p>Opondo told goal.com thus &#8220;<em>\u201cThe player has a two year contract which Gor are obliged to honor. He does not have a problem at all. I would have known because I am always with him. I have a copy with details of the contract he signed,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was directly involved in bringing Rodriguez to Kenya after agreeing with his agent Diego Armando back in Brazil. I have informed Armando what has transpired and they are very disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also hit out at Logarusic : \u201cThe way Logarusic is behaving, he cannot even handle a division four side in Brazil. He appears to be in a hurry to get rid of the player without giving him time which is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opondo said the agreement they had with Gor was to give Rodriguez at least three months to work on his fitness level and a decision on his future would only be made after he has started playing for the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all knew he was unfit after staying out of competitive football for a while and he requested for time to work on his fitness which was acceptable to everyone. We don\u2019t understand the sudden turn of events.\u201d Opondo told goal.com<\/p>\n<p>All this leaves the question as to why the club would sign Rodriguez to 2 years contract despite the fact that he clearly looked out of shape. Its possible that Rodriguez could petition FIFA for redress if he does have a legitimate contract. Although we have heard from Logarusic, we still have not heard from the player himself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/gor-mahia-must-honor-contract-giovanis-agent\/\"\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 goal.com In a move that does not come as a surprise, Bernard Opondo, the agent responsible for bringing<\/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-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","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=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}