{"id":4853,"date":"2014-07-11T02:26:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2014-07-11T02:26:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:26:47","slug":"lavatsa-dropped-by-mc-alger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/lavatsa-dropped-by-mc-alger\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavatsa dropped by MC Alger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/lavatsa-alg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"leading\">The ex-Gor Mahia and Harambee Stars&#8217; towering striker is among 14 players released by the Algerian club hardly six months into his two year contract<\/p>\n<p class=\"leading\">Former<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Gor Mahia<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>striker Edwin Lavatsa has been released by Algerian club MC Algiers.\u00a0Lavatsa is among 14 players released by the club hardly six months into his two year contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to several Algerian news channels, the club was keen to have a lean squad of 25 players.\u00a0Lavatsa is particularly blamed for serious mistakes which cost the team in the just concluded season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mc Algiers has decided to release half of its work force as they prepare for the new season,&#8221; said the news sources.<\/p>\n<h3>Lavatsa reveals why he was dropped<\/h3>\n<p>Lavatsa says that an ankle injury and change in the coaching department is the reason he was dropped by top Algerian club MC Algiers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sprained my ankle four weeks ago and it became difficult to train. The club called me and gave me an ultimatum, either to take a huge salary cut or terminate my contract and get paid half of its remaining value. I opted for the latter,\u201d Lavatsa told <strong>Goal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThings were made even more difficult by the fact that the coach, who signed me was fired and the new man in charge wanted fit players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Gor Mahia hit man also hinted at challenging conditions in Algeria insisting that it was difficult for him to stay in the club.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding his future, Lavatsa said he has had contact with a Belgian club and intends to travel there in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Belgian club are aware of my injury and have accepted to give me a chance. I hope it goes well. It is disappointing that it as come to this but then again this is reality we have to live with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/lavatsa-dropped-by-mc-alger\/\"\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 The ex-Gor Mahia and Harambee Stars&#8217; towering striker is among 14 players released by the Algerian club<\/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":[105],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-edwin-lavatsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","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=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}