{"id":10411,"date":"2013-09-16T05:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T05:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/anxious-wait-as-africa-readies-for-world-cup-draw\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T05:19:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T05:19:36","slug":"anxious-wait-as-africa-readies-for-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/anxious-wait-as-africa-readies-for-world-cup-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxious wait as Africa readies for World Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Ghana and nine other African sides will discover on Monday which country they must defeat to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.}}<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars together with Ivory Coast, Algeria, Nigeria and Tunisia are seeded for a play-off draw with Egypt, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Ethiopia, all unseeded.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s draw ceremony will be held at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Two-leg ties will be played between seeded and unseeded sides with the five aggregate winners going to the finals in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Also a separate draw will determine who plays at home first.<\/p>\n<p>The first legs are scheduled for October 11-15 and return matches for November 15-19.<\/p>\n<p>Top five seeds in Pot 1<\/p>\n<p>1. Ivory Coast<\/p>\n<p>2. Ghana<\/p>\n<p>3. Algeria<\/p>\n<p>4. Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>5. Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>Unseeded five in Pot 2<\/p>\n<p>6. Egypt<\/p>\n<p>7. Burkina Faso<\/p>\n<p>8. Cameroon<\/p>\n<p>9. Senegal<\/p>\n<p>10. Ethiopia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Ghana and nine other African sides will discover on Monday which country they must defeat to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.}} The Black Stars together with Ivory Coast, Algeria, Nigeria and Tunisia are seeded for a play-off draw with Egypt, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Ethiopia, all unseeded. Monday&#8217;s draw ceremony will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000048275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000048275,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10411.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10411.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10411.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10411.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10411.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10411.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000048275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}