{"id":250,"date":"2011-12-15T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:02:12","slug":"ivo-mapunda-and-rama-salim-put-pen-to-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/ivo-mapunda-and-rama-salim-put-pen-to-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivo Mapunda and Rama Salim put pen to paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_3BrWKAOPUc0\/SPgVfXmZZII\/AAAAAAAAAKs\/NPtTsiY4ePY\/s400\/ivomapunda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Highly sought after players ; goalkeeper Ivo Mapunda and midfielder Rama  Salim have both signed for Gor Mahia after a long tug of war that  pitted many teams in search of the services of Both players.<\/p>\n<p>The vastly experienced Mapunda previously played for Yanga of Tanzania, St Georges of Ethiopia and recently was at Bandari. He will shore up the goalkeeping position which is critical as Kogalo seek continental glory.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Lloyd Wahome has also joined Gor Mahia from Mathare united. Defence is another area which was atd shaky this past year. Eric Masika was also rumoured to be being sought after by AFC Leopards.<\/p>\n<p>Kogalo fans will be hoping that Rama Salim can provide the spark in midfield that will be needed to score goals. This season, Gor Mahia scored 27 goals, a far cry from the 38 scored by KCB.<\/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\/ivo-mapunda-and-rama-salim-put-pen-to-paper\/\"\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>Highly sought after players ; goalkeeper Ivo Mapunda and midfielder Rama Salim have both signed for Gor Mahia after a<\/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":[35],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}