{"id":73723,"date":"2015-05-15T01:57:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T01:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=73723"},"modified":"2015-05-15T01:57:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T01:57:59","slug":"strasser-ready-for-sudan-afcon-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=73723","title":{"rendered":"Strasser ready for Sudan Afcon test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sierra Leone and Livorno midfielder Rodney Strasser reckons he is in good sharp to represent Sierra Leone once again when the African Nations Cup race for Gabon 2017 kick off next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 25-year-old defensive midfielder suffered a dislocated shoulder during an international assignment against Swaziland in Freetown May 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Strasser was off the pitch after just 8 minutes of play after an awkward collision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Genoa midfielder who joined Italian Serie B side Livorno on loan in January for the rest of the season is also hoping he can help Livorno gain promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019m fine now, he said. \u201cI\u2019m in good sharp and looking forward to our 2017 African Nations Cup qualifiers. Also meeting national team-mates is always a good atmosphere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNational assignment as always first on my agenda if am fully fit. I have a special desire to play regularly for Sierra Leone,\u201d Strasser told Footballsierraleone.net<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When asked about his present club Livorno, Strasser said, \u201cWe have two more games and we are on the run for a playoff place, am hopeful other results go our way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI can\u2019t determine where I play next season, as at now am only focussing on doing my best with Livorno.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They now have 58 points from 40 matches, eleven points behind league leaders Capri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their last two matches in the regular season are against playoff rivals Vicenza at home this Saturday and Pescara away next Friday 22nd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, Sierra Leoneans are lowering their expectations ahead of their opening Africa Cup of Nations match against Sudan in Khartoum due to the ongoing power struggle over the running of football in Sierra Leone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sierra Leone will kick start another attempt to return to the continental big stage taking on Sudan in their first qualification match before hosting Ivory Coast most likely in Freetown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Group I: Ivory Coast, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Gabon<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"social-sharing ss-social-sharing\"><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone and Livorno midfielder Rodney Strasser reckons he is in good sharp to represent Sierra Leone once again when the African Nations Cup race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[5590],"class_list":["post-73723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-rodney-strasser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73723","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=73723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73723\/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=73723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}