{"id":7052,"date":"2015-07-16T21:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2015-07-17T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T03:00:19","slug":"congratulations-karim-nigiziyimana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/congratulations-karim-nigiziyimana\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Karim Nigiziyimana (player of the month)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/nizig-award-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"524\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia right full back Karim Nigiziyimana, has been named the KPL player of the month for the month of June by the Sports Journalists Association of Kenya (SJAK) .<\/p>\n<p>Nigiziyimana has been a key pillar of Gor Mahia&#8217;s unbeaten run thus far in the KPL. He is solid on defence, often shutting off attacks on his wing. But he is also a key cog in Gor Mahia&#8217;s offence and has registered the most assists in the team thus far.<\/p>\n<p>His crosses and passes are inch perfect in precision. When Gor Mahia beat Chemelil 4-1, Michael Olunga got all the headlines but the player of the match may well have been Nigiziyimana. It is good to see journalists analyze a team and go beyond the basics like &#8220;who scored?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Burundian who joineed Kogalo in January from Rayon sport of Rwanda did not anticipate the award.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI did not expect this at all. This is the first time in my career that I have received an individual award and I have always thought that individual awards are a preserve of strikers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis will now motivate me to work even harder so that I can also get recognised during the end of year awards,\u201d a happy Nizigiyimana said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He was awarded Kshs 50,000, a personalized trophy and a 42 inch Smart TV.<\/p>\n<p>Other candidates for the award were Michael Olunga, Mathare United&#8217;s fast-rising midfielder Eric Johanna, Ulinzi Stars forward Kevin Amwayi and Allan Katerrega from Ushuru.<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners of the award were Ali Hassan Abondo (Gor Mahia), John Makwatta (Ulinzi Stars) and goalkeeper Gabriel Andika (Western Stima) won the March, April and May awards respectively.<\/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\/congratulations-karim-nigiziyimana\/\"\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>Gor Mahia right full back Karim Nigiziyimana, has been named the KPL player of the month for the month of<\/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":[290],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-karim-nizigiyimana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","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=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}