{"id":15035,"date":"2013-01-31T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/kotoko-and-burkina-goalie-soulama-recounts-black-day-at-afcon\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T09:10:00","slug":"kotoko-and-burkina-goalie-soulama-recounts-black-day-at-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/31\/kotoko-and-burkina-goalie-soulama-recounts-black-day-at-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotoko And Burkina Goalie Soulama Recounts \u201dblack Day\u201d At Afcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c14\">Posted On Thursday, 31st January 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"56\">\n<div id=\"attachment_211896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-211896\" title=\"Soulama Abdoulaye\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/13a6SoulamaAbdoulaye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soulama Abdoulaye<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Burkina Faso goalkeeper Soulama Abdoulaye has recounted a memorable day in his career which happened at the on-going Africa Cup of Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c16\">The Asante Kotoko first choice goalkeeper was red card last week in the Stallions impressive 4-0 win over Ethiopia after handling the ball outside the box.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hours after the match in Rustenburg, he was told about the death of his father in his native country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know myself and I was saying to myself that this is not the usual Soulama in the post on that day. This was even before the red card,\u201d the <span id=\"GRmark_0b4866b71857a83be9fbbafdc9fc9d18ced96c8c_gloves:0\" class=\"GRcorrect\">gloves<\/span> man recalled in an interview with FOX FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt something bad had happened even before I was sent off and it was after the match that I was told of my father\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abdoulaye will return between the sticks for Sunday\u2019s quarter-final clash against Togo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am eligible to play for my country again and for now we are preparing as a team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Daouda Diakite did very well against Zambia because we did not concede a goal, but we are supporting each other regardless of who plays in the next match.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Thursday, 31st January 2013 Soulama Abdoulaye Burkina Faso goalkeeper Soulama Abdoulaye has recounted a memorable day in his career which happened at the on-going Africa Cup of Nations. The Asante Kotoko first choice goalkeeper was red card last week in the Stallions impressive 4-0 win over Ethiopia after handling the ball outside the box&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035","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=15035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}