{"id":20687,"date":"2011-03-13T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=20687"},"modified":"2011-03-13T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T17:24:25","slug":"ivory-coast-without-fae-for-nations-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=20687","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast without Fae for Nations Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ivory Coast<\/strong><strong> and Nice midfielder Emerse Fae will miss the rest of the French 2010\/11 season with a thigh injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It means the 27-year-old will not be available for his country in this month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doctors confirmed the extent of the injury after tests were held on his sore thigh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have received the result from his medical tests and it is not good news,&#8221; Nice coach Eric Roy said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He has a serious thigh injury. So we have lost him for the rest of this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are very sad for him and by extension for us. He is our second long-term injury absence and our thoughts are with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will miss next week&#8217;s French Cup semi-final clash with Lille and will not play a part in the rest of the league season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His absence is a major blow for Ivory   Coast ahead of their next Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Elephants are due to play Benin this month in Group A in Abidjan &#8211; they are currently first in the table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fae will be hoping to return to action for the match after that, which is the return fixture in Cotonou &#8211; scheduled for the first weekend in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His absence is a blow for Nice who are battling against relegation from the French top-flight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fae has made 24 appearances for Nice this season and scored three goals.<\/p>\n<p><em>BBC Sport<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast and Nice midfielder Emerse Fae will miss the rest of the French 2010\/11 season with a thigh injury. It means the 27-year-old will [&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-20687","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\/20687","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=20687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687\/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=20687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}