{"id":258,"date":"2011-12-18T21:01:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-12-18T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T21:01:54","slug":"masika-off-to-afc-leopards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/masika-off-to-afc-leopards\/","title":{"rendered":"Masika off to AFC Leopards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of michezoafrika.com<\/p>\n<p>After a week of speculation, Gor Mahia defender Eric Masika has confirmed that he will be moving to AFC Leopards as soon as Monday after paper works has been completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with michezoafrika.com, Masika thanked Gor Mahia fans and his teammates and appreciated his time at Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take this opportunity to thank Gor Mahia fans and my teammates for the great contribution they have had on my career. Without them,I would not be where I am.I will always hold them dear to my heart. Football is a profession and sometimes you have to move. I know next season I will feature against Gor Mahia. I promise to give the club and the fans the respect they deserve. I hope to have a great time at my new club-AFC Leopards&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comments, Gor Mahia Secretary general George Bwana confirmed that AFC had put an official offer and the two sides held talks the whole of Sunday but there was no formal conclusion yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is true, AFC leopards expressed their interest in one of our key players Eric Masika. We had talks for the better part of Sunday but we not reached a formal agreement&#8217; Said Bwana.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Masika was voted the second best defender in the 2011 Kenyan Premier League after Pascal Ochieng.<\/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\/masika-off-to-afc-leopards\/\"\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 michezoafrika.com After a week of speculation, Gor Mahia defender Eric Masika has confirmed that he will be moving<\/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-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}