{"id":736386,"date":"2022-01-05T16:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/afcon-202116-gambia-players-tested-positive-for-covid\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:50:05","slug":"afcon-202116-gambia-players-tested-positive-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/afcon-202116-gambia-players-tested-positive-for-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021:16 Gambia Players tested Positive for COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Gambian Football Federation announced that it was canceling two preparatory matches for the Africa Cup of Nations (January 9-February 6), including the one against Algeria. \u201d Due to the unavailability of 16 players, representing 57 % of the 28 summoned<\/p>\n<p>\u201cour friendly preparatory matches for the CAN against Algeria and Syria (scheduled for January 4, Editor\u2019s note) have both been canceled, \u201d the Gambian Federation indicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsences caused by Covid-19, illnesses, injuries and travel restrictions \u201c, listed Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet in a message on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The situation raises questions a few days before the first participation of The Gambia in a final phase of CAN .<\/p>\n<p>The West African country must face Mauritania on January 12, four days later Mali, and Tunisia on January 20 to close its group stage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambian Football Federation announced that it was canceling two preparatory matches for the Africa Cup of Nations (January 9-February 6), including the one against Algeria. \u201d Due to the unavailability of 16 players, representing 57 % of the 28 summoned \u201cour friendly preparatory matches for the CAN against Algeria and Syria (scheduled for January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,188,189,190,191,192],"class_list":["post-736386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-covid","tag-gambia","tag-players","tag-positive","tag-tested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}