{"id":75017,"date":"2015-08-13T01:24:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=75017"},"modified":"2015-08-13T01:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:24:36","slug":"simbo-awaits-al-itidhad-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=75017","title":{"rendered":"Simbo awaits Al Itidhad task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone Utility defender David Simbo was part of Najran SC side that started and ended their pre-season preparations on a high note, with a 2-0 win over Turkish PTT\u00a0League I Malatyaspor on Thursday 6<sup>th<\/sup> August in their final pre-season encounter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In their previous preparation encounter, the Najran SC new signing was very much instrumental for his new side as they played six matches winning three lost two and drew one, but the most interesting of them all was the match played against former Barca Forward Samuel Eto-Fils side Anyatasapor. \u2018Despite losing, the team really had a good run as I was the one marking him so I learnt a lot from his style of play,\u2019 the former Al \u2013Hilal man said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the former Mighty Blackpool Skipper, \u201cWe have been having a tough pre-season in Turkey and we are back in Saudi awaiting the start of the new season in a week\u2019s time. I can\u2019t wait to start it,\u201d he told this medium while awaiting to board a flight back to Saudi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe team has been doing well at the training camp, we\u2019re now hoping we get a good start of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Najran SC will kick start the new campaign against AL- Itidhad, a team Sierra Leonean all time football legend Mohamed Kallon played for after leaving French side Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone Utility defender David Simbo was part of Najran SC side that started and ended their pre-season preparations on a high note, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[6613],"class_list":["post-75017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-david-simbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75017","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=75017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}