{"id":2541,"date":"2014-03-09T05:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T05:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2014-03-09T05:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T05:01:44","slug":"former-champions-bow-out-of-caf-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/former-champions-bow-out-of-caf-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Champions Bow Out Of CAF Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Nigeria&#8217;s hopes of winning the 2014 CAF Champions League have been dashed as former African Champions Enyimba have been sent packing from this year&#8217;s CAF Champions League due to the away goals\u2019 rule despite beating AS Real Bamako 1-0 in Mali Saturday.<\/div>\n<p>The Aba boys lost the first leg at home 2-1, bringing aggregate scores to 2-2, but for AS Real Bamako advanced on the away goals\u2019 rule<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerians looked set snatch the needed victory after defender Bala Zaka&#8217;s first half goal.<\/p>\n<p>However, all efforts to get the all important second goal, which would have seen them advanced to the next round was proved abortive.<\/p>\n<p>Enyimba&#8217;s is the second Nigerian team eliminated from the continental competition, as league champions Kano Pillars crashed out of the CAF Champions League in the preliminary round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s hopes of winning the 2014 CAF Champions League have been dashed as former African Champions Enyimba have been sent packing from this year&#8217;s CAF Champions League due to the away goals\u2019 rule despite beating AS Real Bamako 1-0 in Mali Saturday. The Aba boys lost the first leg at home 2-1, bringing aggregate scores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2542,"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\/2541"}],"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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}