{"id":81226,"date":"2017-06-04T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=81226"},"modified":"2017-06-04T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:09:18","slug":"miami-fc-midfielder-lahoud-delighted-to-be-back-in-sierra-leone-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=81226","title":{"rendered":"Miami FC midfielder Lahoud delighted to be back in Sierra Leone squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Miami FC skipper, midfielder Michael Lahoud, is excited about being involved again with the Sierra Leone national team.<\/p>\n<p>Lahoud, 30, has not been part of the Sierra Leone squad for almost two years but after head coach John Keister recalled him as one of the 19-foreign based players for Kenya tie in Freetown, the former Philadelphia Union player took to twitter to express his delight, stating that he is honoured to play for his country.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Michael Lahoud\u2019s tweet here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Honored to be called up to play for my country in the upcoming African Cup of Nations Qualifiers<br \/>\n??\u270a?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SierraLeone?src=hash\">#SierraLeone<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mondaymotivation?src=hash\">#mondaymotivation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xWxr89JInZ\">pic.twitter.com\/xWxr89JInZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Lahoud (@MikeLahoud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeLahoud\/status\/869357668120580097\">May 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lahoud made his Leone Stars debut in a 3-2 victory over Equatorial Guinea during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match.<\/p>\n<p>He was a pivotal player under former coach Johnny Mckinstry playing in over four qualifying matches and was part of a 1-0 victory over Swaziland in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p>Lahoud\u2019s last contribution under Mckinstry was during 2015 AFCON qualifiers before the Northern Irish man was sacked in September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Lahoud\u2019s outfit Miami currently in first place in the NASL standings, sporting a three-point lead and a league-best 14 goals scored and +7 goal differential.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo Credit Darren Mckinstry) @football_sierra<\/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>Miami FC skipper, midfielder Michael Lahoud, is excited about being involved again with the Sierra Leone national team. Lahoud, 30, has not been part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":81227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[7393,1476,19174],"class_list":["post-81226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-african-cup-of-nations-qualifiers","tag-leone-stars","tag-michael-lahoud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226","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=81226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81228,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226\/revisions\/81228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}