{"id":68732,"date":"2014-07-05T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=68732"},"modified":"2014-07-05T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:55:31","slug":"david-simbo-in-first-fa-cup-dreamland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=68732","title":{"rendered":"David Simbo in first FA Cup dreamland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sierra Leone international defender, David Simbo (in photo) is delighted with the prospect of winning his first FA Cup final with his new Al-Hilal Omdurman after reaching the Sudanese FA final defeating Ali Khartoum Sport Club 2-1 on Friday last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Al-Hail defender Simbo hopes to help his side to a start of a trophy-rich period in their history<span style=\"color: #000000;\">. H<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ost Ali Khartoum Sport takes the lead at their 23,000 seater stadium in Khartoum before Brazilian born Sergio level things up for the visitors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But it was Sudanese Mohamed Wahider give Al-Hilal Omdurman the victory in the 78th min of play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The start of the match was shocking, we would never expect to start the game slow and we went a goal down, but we showed the character desire and spirit of this team to put it right in the end&#8221; Simbo told Sierra Express Media Sports UK. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Simbo has been the best player on the pitch when he has been fit and he was the right man to secure the defence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It was a difficult game but today was the day and we have done it, I\u2019m looking forward to my first FA Cup final in Sudan, I hope we win it, (laugh).&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile, the other semi-final we play to between Al Merick taking on FC Ahli Shandi for the final place in the Sudanese FA cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al-Halil is the present Sudanese League leader with a point ahead of Al Merick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone international defender, David Simbo (in photo) is delighted with the prospect of winning his first FA Cup final with his new Al-Hilal Omdurman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":68733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[6613,19139],"class_list":["post-68732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-david-simbo","tag-httpwww-sierraexpressmedia-comwp-contentuploads201407david-simbo-jpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68732","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}