Marcelo named in Swedish top tier Team of the week

Kenyan international Eric ‘Marcelo’ Ouma was named in the match day 10 Swedish top- tier Team of The Week after he helped his AIK side get back to winning ways after a run of four winless games.Over the weekend, with his side trailing one nil against Varbergs, the Harambee Stars left back chipped in with an assist that set up Bojan Radulovic for the equalizing goal in the match. That goal would lay a foundation for the comeback as Filip Rogic scored the winning goal for AIK to complete the 2-1 turnaround.“We are in the team of the week. We continue to strive,” posted a caption on the player’s social media portal.After an injury plagued season that saw the former Gor Mahia man limited to only four appearances and a total of 133 minutes in the 2020 campaign according to Soccerway, Marcelo has particularly got off to flying start in the current 2021 season.The Kakamega High School alumnus has played a total of 900 minutes in this season’s campaign, featuring in all the ten games that AIK has played so far. Furthermore, all these ten appearance have been from the starting eleven and the player has not been substituted even once in those games.Following AIK’s return to winning ways, the team jumped up to fifth place on the log on 17 points and are currently seven points adrift league leaders Malmo. Marcelo’s team will next take on eight placed Kalmar FC in their next league encounter.Kalmar is the home of David Majak who is on a short term loan deal from Tusker FC.

 

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