{"id":1272,"date":"2014-02-01T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2014-02-01T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T18:41:34","slug":"demoralilsed-super-eagles-win-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/demoralilsed-super-eagles-win-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Demoralilsed Super Eagles Win Bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Obiozor&#8217;s 85th minute header was all Nigeria needed against 10-men Zimbabwe to claim the bronze medal at the 2014 African Nations Championship in Cape Town on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Masimba Mambare was deservedly sent off \u00a0just 18 minutes into the third place \u00a0off after a dangerous play against goalkeeper Chigozie Agbim, in goal for the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<div>It was not a game that reached any great heights as a spectacle, both coaches giving a run to some fringe players in this final game of the tournament.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Coach Stephen Keshi&#8217;s decision to give playing opportunities to a number of new players seemed to account for the 85 minutes goal drought, as the Super Eagles created only a few scoring chances.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nigeria was participating in the African Nations Championship for the first time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Obiozor&#8217;s 85th minute header was all Nigeria needed against 10-men Zimbabwe to claim the bronze medal at the 2014 African Nations Championship in Cape Town on Saturday. Zimbabwe&#8217;s Masimba Mambare was deservedly sent off \u00a0just 18 minutes into the third place \u00a0off after a dangerous play against goalkeeper Chigozie Agbim, in goal for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}