{"id":69056,"date":"2014-11-27T06:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T06:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=69056"},"modified":"2014-11-27T06:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T06:13:04","slug":"caf-upholds-disqualification-of-ghanas-under-17-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=69056","title":{"rendered":"CAF upholds disqualification of Ghana\u2019s Under-17 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football\u2019s (CAF) Appeal Board has upheld the decision taken by the Organising Committee of the U-17 African championship last month banning Ghana from playing in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This was after an age-cheating protest filed by Cameroon over the MRI test of one of the players of the Black Starlets.<\/p>\n<p>The CAF Appeal Board confirmed the elimination of Ghana\u2019s team and announced Cameroon as replacement to the final phase of the competition to be played in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The CAF decision may be appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 10 days of the decision by the CAF Appeal Board.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the GFA Executive Committee will meet on Thursday 27th November 2014 to deliberate on the next line of action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football\u2019s (CAF) Appeal Board has upheld the decision taken by the Organising Committee of the U-17 African championship last month banning Ghana from playing in the tournament. This was after an age-cheating protest filed by Cameroon over the MRI test of one of the players of the Black Starlets. The CAF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":33381,"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":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-69056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69056","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}