{"id":22451,"date":"2011-04-13T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=22451"},"modified":"2011-04-13T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:42:43","slug":"nigeria-south-africa-egypt-gets-away-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=22451","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt gets away ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1996 gold medallists Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt are all drawn to face their counterparts in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the men\u2019s qualifiers for\u00a0the 2012 Olympic Football tournament away from home in their first leg encounters slated for first weekend in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Confederation of African Football acting Secretary General Hicham El Amrani\u00a0conducted the draws at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt on\u00a0Wednesday 13 April 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participating countries witnessed the ceremony including Gordon Savic the FIFA Head of world cup and Olympics qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match dates for the last-16 round will be played on 3-5 June 2011 for the first-leg matches, 17-19 June 2011 for the return-leg matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt who eliminated Botswana 3-2 will face their Arab counterparts Sudan, while the eventual winners of the tie between Liberia and Ivory Coast are up against Congo Brazzaville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quarter final will be organised by a group system, as the last eight will be divided into two groups. A new qualifying system will be applied for the next stage of the championship, as three teams are going to represent CAF at the London 2012 Olympics with a fourth African team meeting a team from Asia in a play-off match to be held on 12 April 2012 in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0team to qualify will only be known on 20 April 2011, as FIFA has postponed the return-leg match between Liberia and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire until this date, in order to allow the Ivorian team to leave its territory to play the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The draw result is as follows:<\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Algeria v Zambia<\/address>\n<address>Morocco v RD Congo<br \/>\nCongo v the winner of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\/Liberia match (20 April)<br \/>\nGabon v Mali<br \/>\nSudan v Egypt<br \/>\nBenin v South Africa<br \/>\nTunisia v Senegal<br \/>\nTanzania v Nigeria<\/address>\n<p><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1996 gold medallists Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt are all drawn to face their counterparts in the 2nd round of the men\u2019s qualifiers for\u00a0the [&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":[5300],"class_list":["post-22451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-confederation-of-african-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22451","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=22451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22451\/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=22451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}