{"id":36748,"date":"2012-03-16T02:31:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=36748"},"modified":"2012-03-16T02:31:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T02:31:36","slug":"premier-league-is-our-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=36748","title":{"rendered":"Premier League is our target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chairman of newly promoted Division 2 side Amani FC, George Nelson Williams aka Amani has said that he is optimistic that his side will reach the highest level of qualifying to the premier league.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he is happy that his side has secured a place in the up-coming Division Two competition scheduled to commence this month \u201cWe went through a lot of challenges when we were in non division. I am quite aware that the coming Division Two competition will be a difficult one. Our approach will be the same and the payers and technicals are looking forward to it. We hope to participate only once in both Division One and Division Two competitions respectively. \u201cThough it would be a difficult battle to conquer, I strongly believe we can qualify to the Premier in the near future, \u201cAmani revealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked what inspired him to set up Amani FC, he replied, \u201cFootball has been part of me since I was a Kid, but my parents preferred education to football,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Amani, he decided to encourage these young boys to showcase their talents. \u201cWe might have Mohamed Kallon, Kama Dumbuya and Brima Mazola in this team I am happy to state that \u201cmy family played a key role in inspiring these boys and also the success of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Central defender, Ibrahim Kabba said he is optimistic they can qualify to the Division 1 League next season. \u201cIt will be a difficult task to conquer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut with oneness and commitment we shall surely go through as we have played a series of friendly matches and our results were much encouraging as we are confident of qualifying as our dream is to take the team to the premier league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He admonished supporters of Amani FC to refrain from violence as football is a peaceful game that brings divided parties together.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Premier League Fixtures <\/strong><\/em><\/span><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Friday- FCFC vs. E.E Lions <\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>K\/Eagles Vs Central Parade <\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Saturday- Blackpool vs. Ports Authority<\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Sunday \u2013 FC Johansen Vs.\u00a0 Gem Stars<\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Monday- Edwards Vs.\u00a0 Diamond Stars <\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Top Scorers<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>James Bangura (Central Parade) 8<\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Alhaji Kamara (FC Kallon) 3<\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Abdulai Dandaji (Bo Rangers) 3<\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>George Matta (FC Johansen) 3<\/em><em><\/em><\/address>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of newly promoted Division 2 side Amani FC, George Nelson Williams aka Amani has said that he is optimistic that his side will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[11582],"class_list":["post-36748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-sierra-eone-football-leagues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36748","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=36748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}