{"id":682,"date":"2012-06-18T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=682"},"modified":"2012-06-18T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:22:14","slug":"gor-mahia-ec-unhappy-with-logarusics-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-ec-unhappy-with-logarusics-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia EC unhappy with Logarusic&#8217;s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/logarusic-bob.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants Gor Mahia have distanced themselves from the comments made by the team\u2019s Croatian coach Zdravko Logarusic over the Harambee Stars job after a run of poor outings by the national team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualified <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The coach, in an interview with <em>futaa.com<\/em> had claimed he is well qualified to coach the national team, further adding that if the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) wants a foreigner as a coach, it needs to look no further.<\/p>\n<p>His sentiments however, have not been well received by the club\u2019s executive wing. The vice chairman Faiz Ochieng has been infuriated by the comments, claiming the team\u2019s fans are up in arms over the comments and adds that the executive will consult and give an official stand over the comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No mandate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-We are distancing ourselves from what the coach said. It should be first and foremost understood that the coach is an employee of Gor Mahia and the brand called Gor Mahia should not be dragged into such a mess. He has no mandate whatsoever to make such a move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-It is so demeaning to the club and all our fans because they are calling us from all over complaining about his comments to the media. Let me put it very clearly that his job in Kenya is only to coach Gor Mahia. We are going to consult as the executive and give an official statement over the coach\u2019s comments, an irked Faiz told <em>futaa.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Croat has been making clear his dissatisfaction at the national team\u2019s performance since they played Malawi and managed a draw in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Nairobi three weeks ago.<\/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\/gor-mahia-ec-unhappy-with-logarusics-comments\/\"\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 futaa.com Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants Gor Mahia have distanced themselves from the comments made by the team\u2019s<\/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-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}