{"id":81223,"date":"2017-06-04T17:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=81223"},"modified":"2017-06-04T17:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:06:41","slug":"ahead-of-sierra-leone-opener-kenya-friendly-test-with-angola-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=81223","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Sierra Leone opener, Kenya friendly test with Angola cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Kenya June 4th friendly with Palancas Negras of Angola to be played in Machakos has been called off.<\/p>\n<p>Federation (FKF) have confirmed that Angola called off their friendly match against Harambee Stars citing fixtures congestion.<\/p>\n<p>The move leaves the FKF in search of a makeup friendly before their June 10 African Cup of Nations qualifier against away to Sierra Leone in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p>FKF public relations and communication manager, Barry Otieno said: \u201cIndeed, Angola have pulled out of the friendly due to the on-going preparations for the Africa Cup qualifiers. They travelled to Portugal and it has proved hard for them to honour the friendly. The federation will try to get a cover up but if our efforts will not be successful, we will prepare for the Sierra Leone game away,\u201d Otieno was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly would have seen the Kenyan side use it as a final test before they embark on the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Angola withdrew from the friendly to focus on the Africa Cup of Nations duel against Burkina Faso set for June 9 away in Ouagadougou.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Kenya have recently played Uganda to a 1-1 draw (March 23), defeated DRC 2-1 (March 26) and held Malawi to a goalless in April as part of their preparations for the upcoming qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the FKF have also confirmed that they will arrive in Freetown on the 8th June 2017 with a 31-man delegation for the opener of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Freetown June 10th and they will depart on the 11th June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sierra Leone Football Association, (SLFA) the FKF foreman, however, will arrive on the 5th June to do the necessary groundwork awaiting the landing of the full delegation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow the writer @bittar32\/Contact bittar@footballsierraleone.net<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya June 4th friendly with Palancas Negras of Angola to be played in Machakos has been called off. Federation (FKF) have confirmed that Angola called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":81224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[2135,1574],"class_list":["post-81223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-slfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81223","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=81223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81225,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81223\/revisions\/81225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}