{"id":52739,"date":"2013-02-08T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=52739"},"modified":"2013-02-08T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T06:00:55","slug":"gulf-fc-eye-premiership-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=52739","title":{"rendered":"Gulf FC eye premiership qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kono city 1<sup>st<\/sup> Division giants, Gulf FC are one of the nationwide 1<sup>st<\/sup> Division teams to compete for premiership qualification this weekend at the SLFA Academy, Kingtom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They are known to be a very good side with lots of talent and who have dominated the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Division side in Kono city for the past years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Representing Kono this time round, they were held to a 0-0 result by their arch rival Dabundeh FC but went ahead to punish KL FC 4-2 to qualify for the Eastern Region play-offs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the play-offs held in Kenema Gulf FC were held to a 1-1 draw by Moa Warriors of Kailahun and a 0-0 draw by African Team FC of Kenema to guarantee them a visa for the national 1<sup>st<\/sup> Division qualification slated this Sunday 10<sup>th<\/sup> February 2013 at SLFA Academy, Kingtom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Twelve teams across the country will represent their various regions and Gulf FC are in \u201cGroup B\u201d together with stationary Stars FC and Alan-Thababan FC; the champion and runners-up in each group will qualify for the quarter finals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gulf FC opening match is slated for Sunday 10<sup>th<\/sup> February 2013 against Alan-Thababan FC of Makeni and their final match will be against Stationary Stars on Tuesday 12<sup>th<\/sup> February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to\u00a0 team manager T-M-Amnday, he said the team is in good spirit and optimistic of qualifying to the premiership category as they have all the material to represent Kono in the premier league.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cAt the moment there is no serious injury worry and nothing to fear and this year is Gulf FC&#8217;s year of premiership qualification and prosperity,&#8221; he boasted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The team will leave for Freetown on Friday 8<sup>th<\/sup> February for the battle of supremacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The grand final of the two qualifiers to the premier league category will climax on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> February 2013 at the SLFA Academy.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kono city 1st Division giants, Gulf FC are one of the nationwide 1st Division teams to compete for premiership qualification this weekend at the SLFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[14776,14777,8346],"class_list":["post-52739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-gulf-fc","tag-sierra-leone-1st-division","tag-sierra-leone-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52739","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52739\/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=52739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}