{"id":10668,"date":"2016-09-03T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10668"},"modified":"2016-09-03T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T18:48:07","slug":"ethiopia-wins-seychelles-2-1-in-crucial-2017-african-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10668","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Wins Seychelles 2-1 in Crucial 2017 African Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/37268196\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Ethiopia&#8217;s national football team kept their faint hopes alive of qualifying for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations after beating Seychelles 2-1 at the Hawassa International Stadium in Awassa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The win gives Ethiopia a chance of qualify for the tournament as a runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>After the visitors took a shocking lead, Getaneh Kebede&#8217;s first-half strike and a Saladdin Said penalty turned the tie.<\/p>\n<p>The two best runners-up will join 13 group winners at the finals in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian team needs eight other results to go their way this weekend if they are to reach their first Nations Cup since 2013 and only their second since 1982.<\/p>\n<p>As the Group J table stands, Algeria, who would finish their campaign against Lesotho on Sunday, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/36417821\">already qualified<\/a> from the group, with 13 points, while Ethiopia, in second place, has 11 points. Seychelles could only muster four, a point more than Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo by Getty Images]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: BBC News Ethiopia&#8217;s national football team kept their faint hopes alive of qualifying for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations after beating Seychelles 2-1 at the Hawassa International Stadium in Awassa on Saturday. The win gives Ethiopia a chance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10668\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":10671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,46,1],"tags":[4910,3755,4967,4909,1206],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ethiopia-Wins-Seychelles-2-1-in-Crucial-2017-African-Cup-Qualifier.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10674,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions\/10674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}