{"id":171124,"date":"2015-12-01T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=171124"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:51:10","slug":"cecafa-cup-sudan-beat-south-sudan-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=171124","title":{"rendered":"Cecafa Cup: Sudan beat South Sudan on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sudan beat neighbours South Sudan in a penalty shootout to reach the semi-finals of the Cecafa Cup in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match ended 0-0 &#8211; just as it did when the sides when in the group stage last week &#8211; and, with no extra time played in the competition, penalty kicks were required to determine a winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Goalkeeper Akram Elhadi Salim was Sudan&#8217;s hero, saving the very first effort from William Ofiri and then going on to score the final kick to give his side a 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sudan will face the winners of the quarter-final between champions Kenya and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uganda and Ethiopia meet in the other semi-final.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan beat neighbours South Sudan in a penalty shootout to reach the semi-finals of the Cecafa Cup in Ethiopia. The match ended 0-0 &#8211; just as it did when the sides when in the group stage last week &#8211; and, with no extra time played in the competition, penalty kicks were required to determine a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":171125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-171124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}