{"id":1056,"date":"2014-01-27T02:57:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2014-01-27T04:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:12:00","slug":"libya-ghana-through-to-chan-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/libya-ghana-through-to-chan-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya\/ Ghana Through To CHAN Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will face Nigeria in the semi-final of the African Nations Championship after beating DR Congo Sunday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kwabena Adusei converted a 69th minutes penalty-kick that sealed the Black Stars&#8217; semi-final ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana were \u00a0awarded the penalty when centre referee \u00a0judged that a DR Congo defender handled the ball inside the box.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Libya knocked out Gabon on spot-kicks in a game that ended \u00a01-1 after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Libyan striker Abdelsalam Omar struck first in the 50th minutes when he lobbed Gabon&#8217;s keeper, who was caught well off his line.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cousin levelled from the spot for Gabon in the 75th minute and it remained 1-1 until the end of extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will face Nigeria in the semi-final of the African Nations Championship after beating DR Congo Sunday. Kwabena Adusei converted a 69th minutes penalty-kick that sealed the Black Stars&#8217; semi-final ticket. Ghana were \u00a0awarded the penalty when centre referee \u00a0judged that a DR Congo defender handled the ball inside the box. Earlier on Sunday, Libya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,116,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}