{"id":6917,"date":"2013-01-21T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/niger-defender-cries-foul\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:53:00","slug":"niger-defender-cries-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/21\/niger-defender-cries-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger defender cries foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry_wrap fix\" readability=\"39.515050167224\">\n<div class=\"entry_content\" readability=\"49\">\n<p>Niger defender Mohamed Chicoto believes their goalkeeper was fouled just as the game\u2019s goal was scored in their Group B clash with Mali.<\/p>\n<p>Niger keeper Daouda Kassaly could not hold on to a harmless looking cross from the right by Fousseiny Diawara and the loose ball was pounced on by Seydou Keita, who hit it home the winning goal in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Television replays show no interference from a Mali player who went up for a header together with a Niger player, yet Chicoto is crying foul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is always like that at the Nations Cup for Niger. I don\u2019t know why, but there is always a problem with referees for Niger,\u201d said Chicoto.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Mena made their debut at the tournament and lost all three group stage matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<p><noscript readability=\"1.15625\"><\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=vanguardngr\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">blog comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Niger defender Mohamed Chicoto believes their goalkeeper was fouled just as the game\u2019s goal was scored in their Group B clash with Mali. Niger keeper Daouda Kassaly could not hold on to a harmless looking cross from the right by Fousseiny Diawara and the loose ball was pounced on by Seydou Keita, who hit it home the winning goal in the 84th minute&#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-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","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=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}