{"id":7319,"date":"2010-04-08T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:12:41","slug":"sierra-leones-kargbo-demoted-by-his-dutch-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=7319","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone&#8217;s Kargbo demoted by his Dutch club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sierra Leone midfielder Ibrahim Kargbo has been demoted to the reserves of Dutch side Willem II Tilburg for the rest of the season for &#8216;indiscipline&#8217;. (Photo: <\/strong>Kargbo has been demoted to the reserves for a second time)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 27-year-old was also fined an undisclosed amount for failing to show up for Sunday&#8217;s league match against PSV Eindhoven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Kargbo has been sent to the second team for the rest of the season because of indiscipline,&#8221; Rufus Roel, the Willem II spokesman told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have also fined him for his actions but we will not say to the public the amount involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Kargbo had some explanation for his conduct but it has not been accepted by the club therefore he will fully serve the punishment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There is no chance that the club will overturn the decision because we want to send a strong message to Kargbo about his conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the midfielder&#8217;s agent has lashed out at the decision to drop his player to the second team, insisting Kargbo is innocent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The club has made it look like Ibrahim intentionally absented himself from the team but that&#8217;s nonsense,&#8221; Ger Lagerdijk said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Ibrahim did not know what the arrangement was for the pre-match was and the decent thing could have been done by informing him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Also days before the match against PSV, Ibrahim had been nursing an injury to be fit for the game but it did not heal and he was not ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Willem II were defeated 1-0 in the home game, a result which leaves them just one place above bottom side RKC Waalwijk with four matches remaining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is not the first time Kargbo has been dropped to the second team because of disciplinary reasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this year he was axed after returning late from a holiday in his home country without permission.<\/p>\n<address>BBC Sport<\/address>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone midfielder Ibrahim Kargbo has been demoted to the reserves of Dutch side Willem II Tilburg for the rest of the season for &#8216;indiscipline&#8217;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[2657,2658],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-ibrahim-kargbo","tag-willem-ii-tilburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","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=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}