{"id":418056,"date":"2011-05-05T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/05\/ya-konan-backs-hanover\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:44:42","slug":"ya-konan-backs-hanover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/05\/ya-konan-backs-hanover\/","title":{"rendered":"Ya Konan backs Hanover"},"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:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/52552000\/jpg\/_52552645_didieryakonan.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Didier Yakonan\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ya Konan wants Champions League football<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Hanover&#8217;s Didier Ya Konan is backing his German league side to play Champions League football next season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ivory Coast striker believe his side can beat Bayern Munich to third place in the Bundesliga to play in Europe&#8217;s elite club competition.<\/p>\n<p>Hanover are fourth in the table, just two points behind Bayern Munich with two games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The top two sides in the German top flight qualify automatically for next season&#8217;s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The third-placed team enters a play-off.<\/p>\n<p>Hanover have already secured a Europa League berth for next season, but the 26-year-old says his team wants more as they prepare to face VfB Stuttgart on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern are at bottom side St Pauli, who are based in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bayern may well lose the game and if they do, then we&#8217;ll be there,&#8221; said Ya Konan, Hanover&#8217;s top-scorer with 13 goals from 26 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>With the German league set to finish on 14 May, Hanover face mid-table Nuremberg while Bayern host Stuttgart on the last day of the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9476260.stm\" title=\"Ya Konan backs Hanover\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ya Konan backs Hanover<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ya Konan wants Champions League football Hanover&#8217;s Didier Ya Konan is backing his German league side to play Champions League football next season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":418057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-418056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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