{"id":82584,"date":"2013-05-17T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/05\/drogba-suffers-new-ivory-coast-world-cup-snub\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:10:57","slug":"drogba-suffers-new-ivory-coast-world-cup-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/05\/17\/drogba-suffers-new-ivory-coast-world-cup-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"Drogba suffers new Ivory Coast World Cup snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/a167995142011_165287.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c14\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\"><span class=\"speace_black_text_4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtnfootball.com\/europe\/news\/afp-news-english\/201305\/130516-drogba-suffers-new-ivory-coast-world-cup-snub.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"c17\">Supersport<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Veteran striker Didier Drogba was again left out of the Ivory Coast squad when coach Sabri Lamouchi unveiled his 26 players for next month&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers against Gambia and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Drogba led his country at the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa this year but the team exited at the quarter-finals stage.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the former Chelsea star was axed from the squad for March&#8217;s World Cup qualifier against Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Drogba&#8217;s 96 caps and 60 international goals, Lamouchi has resisted the urge to recall the Galatasaray veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast lead their World Cup qualifying group by one point from Tanzania. Morocco have two points while Gambia prop up Group C with one point.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City&#8217;s Kolo Toure was also overlooked.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supersport : \u00a0\u00a0 Veteran striker Didier Drogba was again left out of the Ivory Coast squad when coach Sabri Lamouchi unveiled his 26 players for next month&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers against Gambia and Tanzania.The 35-year-old Drogba led his country at the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa this year but the team exited at the quarter-finals stage.As a result, the former Chelsea star was axed from the squad for March&#8217;s World Cup qualifier against Gambia.Despite Drogba&#8217;s 96 caps and 60 international goals, Lamouchi has resisted the urge to recall the Galatasaray veteran.Ivory Coast lead their World Cup qualifying group by one point from Tanzania. <\/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-82584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82584","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=82584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}