{"id":44369,"date":"2014-09-03T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=44369"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:55:20","slug":"afcon-2015-uganda-prepare-in-niger-ahead-of-ghana-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=44369","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2015: Uganda prepare in Niger ahead of Ghana game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cranes of Uganda are currently in Niger to hold their training camp and prepare for the AFCON 2015 Group E qualifier against the Black Stars on Saturday 6th September.<\/p>\n<p>The team landed in Niger earlier on Tuesday and will begin getting ready for the match in Ghana with a friendly tie against Niger later on Tuesday in Niamey.<\/p>\n<p>The Ugandans are still expecting a few players; Tony Mawejje \u00a0who plays in Iceland for Valur, Kizito Luwagga of SC Covilha in the Portuguese second tier and Dennis Onyango of Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Cranes are expected to hold a 4-day camp in Niger before flying to Ghana for the the match that \u00a0will be played in KUmasi.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda are chasing \u00a0a place in the African Nations Cup since their last qualification in 1978 and their coach Milutin Sredojevic has said the Cranes will give the Black Stars a tough test in Kumasi and give themselves a chance to get back to the AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cranes of Uganda are currently in Niger to hold their training camp and prepare for the AFCON 2015 Group E qualifier against the Black Stars on Saturday 6th September. The team landed in Niger earlier on Tuesday and will begin getting ready for the match in Ghana with a friendly tie against Niger later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":44373,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1943,29,3],"class_list":["post-44369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bloated-contract","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}