{"id":3161,"date":"2010-01-09T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:40:52","slug":"togo-withdraw-from-africa-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/togo-withdraw-from-africa-nations-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Togo Withdraw from Africa Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3162\" title=\"Emmanual Edebayor ambush\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Emmanual-Edebayor-ambush-358x214-custom.jpg\" alt=\"Emmanual Edebayor ambush\" width=\"358\" height=\"214\" \/><strong>Togo have withdrawn from the African Cup of Nations after a deadly attack on their coach which has left 3 dead and many injured. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Togolese football federation spokesman has said assistant coach Amalete Abalo and press officer Stanislaud Ocloo had died as well as the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman also added that the reserve goalkeeper Obilale Kossi, was also in a bad condition but is stable after being flown out to South Africa due to heavy blood loss after being shot in the stomach<\/p>\n<p>Friday officials said the bus driver had been killed and nine others including two players were wounded in the 30-minute ambush.<\/p>\n<p>Togo captain and Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor said earlier: &#8220;As the captain I can say that if the security is not sure, then perhaps we will be leaving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a football game and one of the biggest tournaments in Africa, but I don&#8217;t think people are ready to give their lives. A lot of players want to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adebayor, who joined City from Arsenal for \u00a325m last year, said he also feared the attack would tarnish Africa&#8217;s image in the year when South Africa hosts the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Togo have withdrawn from the African Cup of Nations after a deadly attack on their coach which has left 3 dead and many injured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,135,118,14],"tags":[4126,4129,4108,4130,4131,4125,4128,4127,16755],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-football","category-hot","category-world","tag-africa-nations-cup","tag-emmanuel-adebayor","tag-emmanuel-adebayor-shooting","tag-togo-ambush","tag-togo-national-side-ambush","tag-togo-withdraw","tag-togo-withdraw-africa-nations-cup","tag-togo-withdraw-from-africa-nations-cup","tag-world-cup-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}