{"id":8542,"date":"2016-06-04T05:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T05:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2016-06-04T05:22:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T05:22:03","slug":"gor-mahias-new-brazilian-coach-and-striker-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahias-new-brazilian-coach-and-striker-arrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia&#8217;s new Brazilian coach and striker arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/silva-jolawi.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Silva and Aurelio with Jolawi Image courtesy of Olweya Vechies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After hiring Brazilian coach Jose Marcelo Ferreira, Gor Mahia have imported two more\u00a0 Brazilians: , striker Thiago Da Silva and Marco Aurelio who will be the club\u2019s assistant coach jetted in Nairobi on Friday to join the team ahead of the second leg of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The duo were met at JKIA by team manager Jolawi Obondo and club official Naima Aketch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to be in Kenya, a new place. I expect to score many goals.\u00a0I have been in China and scored 23 goals in the last 10\u00a0months. I was\u00a0the second top scorer,\u201d Thiago, who was struggling to express himself in\u00a0English told <em>Citizen Digital<\/em> upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Silva was asked about his familiarity with the Kenyan football scene and Gor Mahia in particular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been watching Gor on TV and Internet,\u201d\u00a0 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Aurelio, the assistant coach, was signed from Monte Carlo FC that plays in the Macau first division.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia officials have no information about the player nor the coach. But they are certain that he will not end up being another Giovanni Rodriguez Bissolli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as officials have no background information of the player but we have confidence in the coach\u2019s choice. How can a coach recommend a substandard player? He needs to perform more than anyone else,\u201d club secretary, Ronald Ngala said to Citizen sports.<\/p>\n<p>Bisolli was recomended by a local agent to the club in 2013 but could not measure up to the Standards needed by the club and reported to the team while several kilograms overweight.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/aurelio-silva2.jpg\" width=\"528\" height=\"960\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Ochieng Otieno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/naima-aurelio-silva.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Mesh Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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-mahias-new-brazilian-coach-and-striker-arrive\/\"\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>After hiring Brazilian coach Jose Marcelo Ferreira, Gor Mahia have imported two more\u00a0 Brazilians: , striker Thiago Da Silva and<\/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":[431,430],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-marco-aurelio","tag-thiago-da-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","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=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8545,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}