{"id":21336,"date":"2011-03-23T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=21336"},"modified":"2011-03-23T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T00:40:59","slug":"sierra-leones-skipper-ready-for-niamey-cracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=21336","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone\u2019s skipper ready for Niamey cracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sierra  Leone<\/strong><strong> skipper Ibrahim Obreh Kargbo (in photo) says he&#8217;s ready to take part in Sunday&#8217;s Nations Cup qualifier against the Mena\u2019s of Niger in their home soil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FC Baku defensive midfielder has been waiting for what has been described as Sierra Leone\u2019s biggest game if they are to stay in a better position in reaching AFCON 2012 slated for Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The player from Azerbaijan was very instrumental when Sierra Leone hosted South Africa in Freetown and this time wants to leave Niamey helping his national side taking maximum points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Willem II midfielder is optimistic they can clinch the result needed, but maintained it\u2019s going to be crucial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Of course it is been dubbed as a crucial encounter for both sides, most especially South Africa hosting Egypt an draw between the two will make a nice advantage for us and Niger, so thinking about that it will be great if we take our chances, but I think it will be the same as the last game against South Africa, where you don\u2019t want to drop points&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have been around the team many years now so I can tell you these sets of players are ready and determined to reach their first African Cup of Nation. I think this is our biggest game but there is no pressure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We will go into the game 100% focused and we are aware it is a must that we get all the three points, as a nation we have been out of this tournament for a while, he noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most the Sierra Leone foreign players are expected on Wednesday in Niger.<\/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>Sierra Leone skipper Ibrahim Obreh Kargbo (in photo) says he&#8217;s ready to take part in Sunday&#8217;s Nations Cup qualifier against the Mena\u2019s of Niger in [&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":[2135,2370,7564,1476,5191,6043,1573],"class_list":["post-21336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-african-football","tag-ibrahim-obreh-kargbo","tag-leone-stars","tag-sierra-leone-footballers","tag-sierra-leone-sport","tag-sierra-leone-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336","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=21336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/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=21336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}