{"id":52851,"date":"2018-10-16T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52851"},"modified":"2018-10-16T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:55:10","slug":"madagascar-becomes-first-country-to-qualify-for-2019-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52851","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar becomes first country to qualify for 2019 AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Madagascar-becomes-first-country-to-qualify-for-2019-AFCON.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Madagascar became the first country to book their place at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, following a 1-0 victory at home over Equatorial Guinea in Group A on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand-based midfielder, Njiva Rakotoharimalala, scored the only goal four minutes before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>The victory lifted the \u2018Barea\u2019 to 10 points from four games and beyond the reach of Equatorial Guinea and Sudan, in a four-team mini-league from which the top two qualify.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second 1-0 victory for the Malagasy over the Equatoguineans within four days, after captain Faneva Ima Andriatsima scored the winner in West Africa last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This is also the first time Madagascar will play at the tournament.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madagascar became the first country to book their place at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, following a 1-0 victory at home over Equatorial Guinea in Group A on Tuesday. Thailand-based midfielder, Njiva Rakotoharimalala, scored the only goal four minutes before half-time. The victory lifted the \u2018Barea\u2019 to 10 points from four games and beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6369,6368],"class_list":["post-52851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-cup-of-nation","tag-madasgar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}