{"id":408119,"date":"2011-04-29T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/kenya-keen-on-africa-games-win\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:19:00","slug":"kenya-keen-on-africa-games-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/kenya-keen-on-africa-games-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya keen on Africa Games win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/61426c83en_raw_gtty.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Nigeria's U23 coach Austin Eguavoen\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Austin Eguavoen was unhappy with the treatment Nigeria received in Liberia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Kenya hope young coach Ezekiel Akwana can create a second football &#8216;miracle&#8217; within a month when they confront Eritrea in an All-Africa Games qualifier this weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eritrea pulled off a shock 4-1 first leg victory at home in a second round qualifier, leaving their opponents needing to score at least three goals at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The result led to coach Bob Oguyi being fired for taking 16-year-old academy footballers to Asmara when he could have fielded players six years older in the under-23 competition.<\/p>\n<p>Akwana was in charge of Sofapaka when they trounced Ismailia 4-0 to become the first Kenyan club to defeat Egyptian opponents in the 47-year history of Pan-African championships.<\/p>\n<p>The dreadlocked coach believes he can defy the odds again after insisting the Eritrea fixture goes ahead when officials of the cash-strapped national football federation wanted to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am 100 percent sure we will overturn the deficit and progress to the next round because I have a very good side. Eritrea are in for a rough time,&#8221; vowed the Kenya coach to local media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malawi<\/strong> are in a similar situation to Kenya after Bongani &#8216;Drogba&#8217; Ndulula poached four second-half goals for <strong>South Africa<\/strong>, but caretaker coach Kinnah Phiri refuses to surrender ahead of the Blantyre second-leg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anything is possible in football. It is just a matter of determination and putting up a gallant fight,&#8221; the stand-in for unavailable Alex Masanjala told the Daily Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uganda<\/strong> bring a 2-1 advantage over <strong>Tanzania<\/strong> to Dar-es-Salaam and are likely to retain goalkeeper Benjamin Ochan despite his poor positioning gifting the visitors a potentially crucial away goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania stunned former gold medallists Cameroon last month in a qualifier for the 2012 Olympic Games &#8212; another under-23 competition &#8212; and are slight favourites to secure a final round showdown with Kenya or Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigeria<\/strong> are even better placed having held <strong>Liberia<\/strong> 1-1 in a Monrovia game overshadowed by complaints from visiting coach Austin Eguavoen about their treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed his squad was left at the airport for three hours before being taken in transport lacking ventilation to a hotel that did not have power and served meals at irregular times.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester City midfielder Danny Uchechi, who had his smartphone stolen from the dressing room, fumed: &#8220;I cannot believe that after all the hardship we were put through, they rob us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe<\/strong> and <strong>Botswana<\/strong> are level at 2-2 ahead of a Harare clash, <strong>Senegal<\/strong> try in Dakar to overturn a 2-1 loss in <strong>Guinea Bissau<\/strong> and <strong>DR Congo<\/strong> should advance given they have a 2-1 lead over <strong>Gabon<\/strong> and a game in Kinshasa to come.<\/p>\n<p>The final round of qualifiers is scheduled for June and July after which seven countries qualify to join hosts Mozambique at the 3-18 September tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Africa Games football competition is restricted to under-23 footballers with qualifiers staged regionally and the eight-team finale is scheduled for September 3-18 in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/61426c83en_raw_gtty.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9471431.stm\" title=\"Kenya keen on Africa Games win\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya keen on Africa Games win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Austin Eguavoen was unhappy with the treatment Nigeria received in Liberia Kenya hope young coach Ezekiel Akwana can create a second football &#8216;miracle&#8217; within a month when they confront Eritrea in an All-Africa Games qualifier this weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":408120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-408119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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