{"id":432,"date":"2012-04-05T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=432"},"modified":"2012-04-05T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:11:17","slug":"gattuso-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gattuso-calls-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Gattuso calls it quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gattuso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of michezoafrika.com<\/p>\n<p>Finally after weeks of controversy at the club, Gor Mahia\u2019s midfielder Collins Okoth has announced that he has \u2018quit Gor Mahia\u2019 with immediate effect.Okoth made the announcement on Thursday morning just a day after turning out for Gor Mahia in a KPL fixture against Mathare United at the City stadium. The match ended 1-1.<br \/>\nIn a letter addressed to the club chairman Ambrose Rachier, Okoth through his lawyer said he has made the decision based on previous happenings that have made his tenure at the club uncomfortable and as such hindering his maximum performance.<br \/>\nWhile speaking to michezoafrika.com on Thursday morning in Nairobi, Okoth said he will wait for expiry of his contract on 26th of June 2012 before knowing his next move but in the mean time he will keep training as he shops around for another club.<br \/>\n\u201cThis has been a hard decision for me but I would like to formally announce that I have quit Gor Mahia. As much as it is a hard one to make, my decision is for the sake of both parties since I think my performance will be greatly inhibited by outside factors including incitement from a section of club officials and insiders who seem to be feeding the new coach with a lot of misinformation regarding my commitment to the club.\u201d He said.<br \/>\n\u201cI have tried to give my best to the team that I hold close to my passion but apparently it looks like someone or some people are not happy with my commitment. I have been accused severally of selecting matches to play in and also accused of feigning injuries when it is very clear that doctors including Gor Mahia\u2019s team doctor ruled me out after X-rays on my knee.\u201d He continued.<br \/>\n\u201c All my troubles started early this year when I did not take a penalty against Tusker, we lost the match but I was labeled indisciplined because I did not take a penalty. How can one be said to be indisciplined because he did not take a penalty on tactical reasons?\u201d<br \/>\nCollins Okoth is expected to deliver his resignation letter to the club chairman later on Thursday afternoon.<br \/>\nOkoth has thanked all those who have supported him while at Gor Mahia saying:<br \/>\n\u201c Gor Mahia\u2019s fans are phenomenal but there are some who are out to spoil the good name of the team by incitement and underhand back biting that will eventually bring down the team .They should leave the new coach to run the club professionally without outside interference where he will be fed with information to victimize players for past happenings. Let the new coach study the players on his own and make judgment on who is fit to play and who is fit to be dropped when the June transfer window comes.But for me am out of here and I wish my team mates all the best of luck.\u201d He concluded.<\/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\/gattuso-calls-it-quits\/\"\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 Finally after weeks of controversy at the club, Gor Mahia\u2019s midfielder Collins Okoth has announced that he<\/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-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}