Leone Stars skipper Umaru’ Zingalay’ Bangura has been ruled out of 2015 African Cup of Nations qualifier against DR Congo in Lubumbashi schedule for Wednesday due to a groin injury.<\/p>\n
The Belarus based defender told the Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) that he sustained the injury during a Leone Stars training session in Abidjan in preparation for their opening group D qualifier against Les Elephants of Ivory Coast which they lost 2-1.<\/p>\n
He said: “We trained on an artificial turf and I got injured because it was too hard for me.”<\/p>\n
I just managed to play against Ivory Coast and it was not easy for me as I was feeling pain. I wasn’t even running properly.”<\/p>\n
“Now I can’t even run, so I don’t think i’ll be fit for the game against DR Congo, unless miracle happens.”<\/p>\n
Leone Stars coach Jonathan Mckinstry is yet to give up on his captain as he said: “My new physio Matthew Hylla will assess Bangura’s injury. If he’s fit he’ll play and if he doesn’t he’ll not play.”<\/p>\n
“It’ll be a big blow for us if Bangura doesn’t play but we have other players to fill the gap.<\/p>\n
It’ll be the second competitive game he’s missing out since he made his debut for Leone Stars against Mali in 2006 in the 2008 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n
Two other players Alfred’ Zagalo’ Sankoh and George’ Kweku’ Davies were substituted against Ivory Coast because of Injury.<\/p>\n
Sankoh who is suffering from a groin injury is also doubtful while Davies is expected to recover from a knee injury in time for the match.<\/p>\n
Sankoh says it’s not looking good for him at the moment but he has not totally ruled himself out for now.<\/p>\n
Coach Mckinstry said Sankoh would also be assessed and a decision on him will be taken.<\/p>\n
He added: “I’m confident that Davies will be fit for the DR Congo and he’ll play.<\/p>\n
By Mohamed Fajah Barrie in Kinshasa <\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Leone Stars skipper Umaru’ Zingalay’ Bangura has been ruled out of 2015 African Cup of Nations qualifier against DR Congo in Lubumbashi schedule for Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":64484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[19508,1476,5117],"class_list":["post-70235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-2015-african-cup-of-nations-qualifier","tag-leone-stars","tag-umaru-zingalay-bangura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70235","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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