{"id":20374,"date":"2011-03-06T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=20374"},"modified":"2011-03-06T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T05:45:11","slug":"african-u20-tournament-in-libya-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=20374","title":{"rendered":"African U20 tournament in Libya postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has &#8220;indefinitely postponed&#8221; the African U20 championship, which had been scheduled to take place in Libya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move has been taken because of what Caf called &#8220;security concerns and the current unstable political situation&#8221; in Libya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event had been due to kick-off on 18 March and finish on 1 April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new location and timescale will be confirmed in the next few days, according to a Caf statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new date and venue needs to be determined quickly because the semi-finalists will be Africa&#8217;s representatives at the U20 World Cup in Colombia later this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana and South Africa have both been mentioned as possible stand-in hosts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has &#8220;indefinitely postponed&#8221; the African U20 championship, which had been scheduled to take place in Libya. The move has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20374","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20374\/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=20374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}