{"id":406,"date":"2012-03-30T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=406"},"modified":"2012-03-30T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T00:15:00","slug":"gor-mahia-chasing-croatian-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-chasing-croatian-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia chasing Croatian coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zlcoach.com\/images\/8\/018.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Daily Nation<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia FC is finalising talks with Croatian coach Zdravko Logarusic to take over the club\u2019s technical bench.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Logarusic arrived in Nairobi on Thursday morning from Ghana where he has been coach of Ashanti Gold until last December when he parted ways with the club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 50-year-old, bald-headed Croat has coached in Croatia, Sweden, Germany, Australia and Ghana and says he has the capacity to change the floundering fortunes of K\u2019Ogalo, 12th in the Kenyan Premier League table winless in the past six games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI have been monitoring what has been happening at Gor Mahia and I believe this is a great club which deserves to be fighting for the title and not struggling as it is,\u201d said Logarusic when he arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI have keenly watched their matches and I can say the team has great potential. The fans also have passion, which is quite good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>More than 10 foreign coaches applied for the Gor job after the position fell vacant following the disbandment of the previous bench that was headed by Cameroonian Anaba Awono.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Club legend John Otieno \u201cBobby\u201d Ogolla has been handling the team for the past month and, with the expected arrival of the Croat, according to the club\u2019s secretary-general George Bwana, the bench will be stronger.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We are excited that he has shown interest to coach Gor Mahia,\u201d added Bwana, who said Ogolla and team manager Tom Ogweno would be retained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cLooking at his record I believe he can take Gor Mahia far and I just hope the Gor family will welcome him and give him all the support.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ogolla has indicated he needed assistance to handle the team, which has 33 registered players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On Thursday, Gor officials were trying to tie some loose ends and discuss terms with the Croat, who is said to be interested in a one-year renewable contract based on performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In his application letter, Logarusic said: \u201cI believe I can be an asset to your club in bringing fresh and different approaches, many new technical and practical innovations to bolster true soccer professionalism.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cMy past practical experiences with various football clubs around the world and communication with many professional coaches strengthen my significantly different working style.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He holds a Uefa Pro Licence and three other coaching certificates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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\/news\/gor-mahia-chasing-croatian-coach\/\"\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>From Daily Nation Gor Mahia FC is finalising talks with Croatian coach Zdravko Logarusic to take over the club\u2019s technical<\/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-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}