{"id":19419,"date":"2014-05-19T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=19419"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:39:47","slug":"2014-world-cup-nuru-sulley-sad-about-squad-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=19419","title":{"rendered":"2014 World Cup: Nuru Sulley sad about squad snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearts of Oak defender Nuru Sulley has expressed his disappointment for not making into Kwesi Appiah\u2019s 26-man provisional list for the World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The Local Black Stars defender played a very key role in the Ghana team that finished runner-up in African Nations Championship (CHAN), but that wasn\u2019t enough to earn him a call-up to the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, I was going to make it to Ghana\u2019s 26-man provisional list for the World Cup and I even anticipated to be in the final 23-man squad for the World Cup,\u201d the 22-year-old defender told Joy fm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel bad because we are doing well in the domestic league and we translated that to Africa by conceding just a goal during the CHAN, but that wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot withstanding that, Ghana has over thousand players, so the mere fact that people are chanting my name for a place in the World Cup is an achievement and it is my hope that I one day earn a call-up to the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>He added by expressing his desire to play overseas within the shortest possible time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying abroad is quite head of Ghana and I think when you go overseas and excel people will see you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the grace of God I am hoping there will be such an opportunity for me by the close of this year,\u201d the Hearts of Oak defender said. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: All Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearts of Oak defender Nuru Sulley has expressed his disappointment for not making into Kwesi Appiah\u2019s 26-man provisional list for the World Cup in Brazil. The Local Black Stars defender played a very key role in the Ghana team that finished runner-up in African Nations Championship (CHAN), but that wasn\u2019t enough to earn him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19420,"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":[117],"tags":[118,828,29,3,114],"class_list":["post-19419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-bolgatanga-nursing-training-college","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19419","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}