{"id":24759,"date":"2011-06-05T21:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=24759"},"modified":"2011-06-05T21:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:38:38","slug":"ivory-coast-secure-2012-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=24759","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast secure 2012 place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivory Coast have qualified for next year&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations finals with two games to spare. \u00a0(Didier Drogba helped himself to two goals)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Elephants thumped Benin 6-2 in Cotonou on Sunday to take their points tally to 12 &#8211; a total none of the chasing teams can reach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two goals apiece from Gervinho and Didier Drogba helped put the hapless Squirrels to the sword in front of their own fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Burundi<\/strong><strong>&#8216;s <\/strong>3-1 win over visiting<strong> Rwanda<\/strong> helped the Elephants&#8217; cause.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seremani Ndikumana, Saido Ntibazonkiza and Papy Saty scored for the Swallows and Bokota Labama on target for the visiting wasps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Ivory  Coast, both Burundi and Benin lead the chase with four points, one more than Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With hosts Equatorial Guinea and Gabon qualifying automatically, and with Group K winners Botswana already through, a quarter of next year&#8217;s finalists are now known.<\/p>\n<p><em>BBC Sport<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast have qualified for next year&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations finals with two games to spare. \u00a0(Didier Drogba helped himself to two goals) 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":[2135,3255,2963],"class_list":["post-24759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-didier-drogba","tag-ivory-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759","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=24759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759\/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=24759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}