{"id":22956,"date":"2011-12-28T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/gabons-bamba-set-for-surgery\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:53:56","slug":"gabons-bamba-set-for-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/28\/gabons-bamba-set-for-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon&#8217;s Bamba set for surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"67\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57596000\/jpg\/_57596414_rohr_with_squad_gtty.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Gernot Rohr (right) instructs the Gabonese squad\" \/> Coach Gernot Rohr has been forced to reshuffle his defence in Bamba&#8217;s absence<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Injured Gabon international Jean-Pierre Bamba will undergo an operation on his damaged right knee on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old was set to be a key figure at next month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations until suffering ligament damage in a friendly in October.<\/p>\n<p>Gabon coach Gernot Rohr had still harboured hopes of a return to action until these were dashed by medical advice earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will miss him as he is a very good central defender,&#8221; Rohr told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can play right back as well, so it&#8217;s a pity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gabonese officials had been so confident of Bamba&#8217;s recovery that the centre back made Gabon&#8217;s preliminary 30-man squad for the 2012 finals earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Bamba, who plays his club football in the Gabonese capital Libreville, is currently with Rohr in France ahead of his operation in Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p>And the German coach is hopeful that the medical prognosis of a return in three months&#8217; time will prove accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s qualifying race to the 2014 World Cup starts in June, by when Bamba will expect to have fully recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The FC 105 Libreville player broke into the Gabonese first team last year and has often featured under Rohr ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Gabon will stage the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals from 21 January to 12 February, along with fellow co-hosts Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Coach Gernot Rohr has been forced to reshuffle his defence in Bamba&#8217;s absence Injured Gabon international Jean-Pierre Bamba will undergo an operation on his damaged right knee on Thursday. 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