{"id":10460,"date":"2013-01-26T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/put-vows-to-put-zambia-to-the-sword\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:30:00","slug":"put-vows-to-put-zambia-to-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/26\/put-vows-to-put-zambia-to-the-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Put vows to put Zambia to the \u2018sword\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"54\">\n<p>By Tony Ubani<\/p>\n<p>After chalking up all three points against Ethiopia with an emphatic 4-0 win in group C of the 2013 African Nations Cup, Burkina Faso coach Paul Put said his team is totally focused on beating Zambia in their last group game to qualify for the quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso won their first game in a Nations Cup final since 1998 when they hosted. According to the coach his team has gathered momentum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be ready for Zambia on Tuesday and we are committed and united in our cause to qualify\u201d, the coach stressed.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0 Zambia coach, Herve Renard said all is not lost for the defending champions. \u201cWe have our destiny in our own hands. I think we are still capable of qualifying to the quarterfinal\u201d, Renard said.<\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso are currently topping the group with four points. A win for them against Zambia will see the Stallions cementing their position in the group, while a loss or draw will certainly see Zambia out depending on the result between Nigeria and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Tony Ubani After chalking up all three points against Ethiopia with an emphatic 4-0 win in group C of the 2013 African Nations Cup, Burkina Faso coach Paul Put said his team is totally focused on beating Zambia in their last group game to qualify for the quarter-final. Burkina Faso won their first game in a Nations Cup final since 1998 when they hosted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}