{"id":4816,"date":"2014-07-01T02:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T02:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2014-07-01T02:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T02:20:46","slug":"rama-salim-set-for-sa-trials-as-gor-mahia-sign-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/rama-salim-set-for-sa-trials-as-gor-mahia-sign-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama Salim set for SA trials as Gor Mahia sign trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/rama-sofa12b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia midfielder Rama Salim is scheduled to undergo trials with South African PSL side Bloemfontein Celtic.<\/p>\n<p>The playmaker has been plying his trade for <em>K&#8217;Ogalo<\/em>, and was until recently on loan at Qatar side, Al-Markhiya. According to sources, the 21-year-old player will be reporting for pre-season training at Celtic, who came back from the off-season break on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Capped seven times by Kenyan national team Harambee Stars, Rama Salim is a highly rated player, who, if he does eventually sign, will be relied upon to fill the gap by the injured Keagan Buchanan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Soccer Laduma<\/em>\u00a0reports that Celtic coach Ernst Middendorp has previously revealed that he is looking to bolster the team with players of pedigree in key attacking positions, as <em>Phunya Sele Sele<\/em> look to build on their sixth place finish of last season.<\/p>\n<p>If Salim does indeed eventually sign after his trial, <em>Phunya Sele Sele<\/em> will be hoping that he follows in footsteps of Frank \u2018Gabadinho\u2019 Mhango, who became an instant hit at the club after signing from Malawian side, Big Bullets.<\/p>\n<h3>Gor Mahia sign trio<\/h3>\n<p>Ugandan striker Arthur Semazzi has signed a one and a half year contract with Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>Semazzi has previously played for Lweza FC,\u00a0K.B Lions, URA, Bunnamwaya, Police, Victors and SC Villa. He becomes the fifth Ugandan player to feature for <em>K\u2019Ogalo<\/em>. Others are striker Dan Sserunkuma, Israel Emuge, Geoffrey \u2018Baba\u2019 Kizito and Godffrey Walusimbi.<\/p>\n<p>Semazzi is among five players\u2019 signed by Gor Mahia on deadline day of mid-transfer season. Others are Charles Bruno (Thika United) Simon Mburu, (Posta Rangers), Kennedy Ayong (Nairobi Stima) and Ian Niva (Australia).<\/p>\n<p>Ayong and Bruno come in to bolster left fullback and central defense roles respectively while Simon Mburu will join midfield pack. Ugandan Semazzi and Niva will provide new strength in striking force ahead of premier league second leg.<\/p>\n<p>The signings brings <em>K&#8217;Ogalo&#8217;s<\/em> newcomers tally to seven following earlier confirmations of midfielder Collins Okoth (unattached) and striker Timothy Otieno (on loan from Talanta FC).<\/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\/rama-salim-set-for-sa-trials-as-gor-mahia-sign-trio\/\"\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 Gor Mahia midfielder Rama Salim is scheduled to undergo trials with South African PSL side Bloemfontein Celtic.<\/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":[111,129],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-new-signings","tag-rama-salim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","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=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}