{"id":21202,"date":"2011-03-22T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=21202"},"modified":"2011-03-22T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:02:58","slug":"ivory-coast-libya-nations-cup-qualifiers-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=21202","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast, Libya Nations Cup qualifiers moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>According to BBC news, Ivory Coast and Libya&#8217;s 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers this weekend have been moved to neutral venues because of the upheaval in the two countries. <\/strong><em> (Photo: Didier Drogba will lead Ivory Coast in the game against Benin in Accra<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Elephants will now clash with Benin in Ghana while Libya take on Comoros in Mali in their Group C game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivory Coast were originally scheduled to host their Group H game in Abidjan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the post-election violence in Ivory Coast has forced the game to be played in Accra on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Ivory Coast will play their Nations Cup qualifier against Benin in Accra,&#8221; Ghana FA president Kwesi Nyantakyi told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have agreed to host the game in Accra because of the security situation after the Ivorian FA officials approached us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They are our brothers and we are ready to assist them to play their qualifiers in our country whenever they need us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivory Coast will be seeking to extend their lead at the top of Group H when they clash with Benin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Elephants are top of the group with maximum six points after two matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Second-placed Benin have four points, Burundi are third with one point while Rwanda have no points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Libya&#8217;s clash with Comoros will be played in Bamako on Sunday because of the intense fighting between rebels and forces loyal to President Moammar Gadhafi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Ivory Coast&#8217;s U23 will host Liberia in their Olympic Games qualifier in Accra on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A bitterly disputed election result is pulling the country apart and has left the West African country divided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivorian clubs have also had their continental matches disrupted by the political standoff at home.<\/p>\n<address><em>BBC Sport<\/em><\/address>\n<address>\n<\/address>\n<address><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BBC news, Ivory Coast and Libya&#8217;s 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers this weekend have been moved to neutral venues because of the [&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":[7537,2370,3255,2963],"class_list":["post-21202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-afric-cup-of-nations","tag-african-football","tag-didier-drogba","tag-ivory-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202","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=21202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202\/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=21202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}