{"id":44350,"date":"2012-07-14T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=44350"},"modified":"2012-07-14T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:00:46","slug":"sierra-leone-beach-volleyball-u-19-boys-team-bow-out-of-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=44350","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Beach Volleyball U-19 boys team bow out of championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone U-19 boys beach volleyball team has bowed out of this year\u2019s U-19 Beach Volleyball Championship after they lost three group matches to Germany, Spain and Thailand respectively in the FIVB World Swatch Championship at Finikoudes Beach, Lanarka, Cyprus. \u00a0\u00a0The former had already lost their first match against Germany two straight, while Thailand won 2-1 against Spain in a best of three sets in pool M of the main draw in the opening games. \u00a0\u00a0(Photo: <em>Sierra Leone and Niger in Cyprus)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patrick Lombie and Momodu Samura could not acclimatize with the hot<strong> <\/strong>weather atmosphere to contest their opening matches against Germany and Spain who seemed to be very comfortable with the weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coach Sorie Kamara who had so much confidence in his boys expressed dissatisfaction about the level of their performance against their counterparts. \u00a0\u2018\u2019My boys did not play to expectation and I\u2019m very much disappointed. \u00a0The Germans nor the Spaniards were stronger than them but they became panicked and could not deliver well, \u2019\u2019 said Sorie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the information ,Sierra Leone&#8217;s professional player based in Cyprus rescued the beach volleyball team in Cyprus. \u00a0Mustapha Haji footed the bills for the four man delegation after the team&#8217;s elimination in the ongoing FIVB Swatch Youth Championship in Larnaka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The delegation is expected back home on July 22<sup>nd<\/sup> 2012 to prepared for U-21 World Championship in Canada slated for the 29 of August &#8211; September 2<sup>nd<\/sup> 2012.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Bernard Turay<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\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>Sierra Leone U-19 boys beach volleyball team has bowed out of this year\u2019s U-19 Beach Volleyball Championship after they lost three group matches to Germany, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[12749,12712],"class_list":["post-44350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-sierra-leone-u-19-boys-beach-volleyball","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350","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=44350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}