Sierra Leone junior national side, Sierra Stars in a bid to reach Rwanda 2011 last Sunday faced a 2-0 defeat to the Young Elephants of Cote d\u2019Ivoire as they confirmed their place at the Rwanda 2011 Africa U-17 Championship.<\/p>\n
The Ivorians go through on a 4-2 on aggregate after 2-2 draw in the first leg encounter held in Freetown a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n
The baby Elephants had to wait till the closing stages of the game to break through the iron-clad defence of the Sierra Leoneans.\u00a0Abou Fofana scored the opener on 82 minutes before Captain John Thome Yoboue sealed victory by converting a spot-kick in added on time.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in Dakar, Senegal edge past the Black Starlets of Ghana 3-2 on penalties to seal their place at the ninth edition of the biennial championship, The Senegalese scored a goal in each half to neutralize the 2-0 lead of the Ghanaians from the first leg forcing the game into penalties which they emerged superior.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Eaglets of Mali have qualified for the Rwanda 2011 African U-17 Championship after posting a 3-0 win over their Cameroonian counterparts in the final round second leg clash on Saturday in Bamako.<\/p>\n
The Eaglets advanced 4-0 on aggregate after registering a lone goal over the Indomitable Cubs in the first leg held in Yaound\u00e9 a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n
The final tournament takes place from 8-22 January, 2011 in Rwanda.<\/strong><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Sierra Leone junior national side, Sierra Stars in a bid to reach Rwanda 2011 last Sunday faced a 2-0 defeat to the Young Elephants of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[5802,1476,744,5191,5492],"class_list":["post-16614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-africa-u-17-championship","tag-leone-stars","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-footballers","tag-sierra-leone-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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