{"id":11044,"date":"2012-06-03T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/wrapup-1-soccer-nigeria-safrica-leave-it-late-in-world-cup-games\/"},"modified":"2012-06-03T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T20:40:09","slug":"wrapup-1-soccer-nigeria-safrica-leave-it-late-in-world-cup-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-1-soccer-nigeria-safrica-leave-it-late-in-world-cup-games\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 1-Soccer-Nigeria, SAfrica leave it late in World Cup games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Uche spares Nigeria embarrassment<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Libya draw away to Togo<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa held by Ethiopia<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Gleeson<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Nigeria and South Africa both<br \/>\nleft it late on Sunday to salvage points at the start of their<br \/>\nbids to qualify for the World Cup on a day that emphasised the<br \/>\nincreasing vagaries of the qualifying competition on the African<br \/>\ncontinent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mali, who finished third at the African Nations Cup finals<br \/>\nearlier this year, lost 1-0 away to Benin in their opening group<br \/>\ngame while Libya kept up their recent heroics with a 1-1 draw in<br \/>\nTogo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was a dramatic late equaliser for Uganda as they<br \/>\nsalvaged a point in Angola in one of seven African qualifiers<br \/>\nplayed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It completed a weekend of 20 matches at the start of the<br \/>\ngroup phase of qualifiers for Brazil where little went with the<br \/>\nform book.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ike Uche delivered a rocket-like shot 10 minutes from time<br \/>\nto spare Nigeria potential blushes against Namibia after he had<br \/>\nearlier missed a host of good chances in Calabar.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Uche spares Nigeria embarrassment * Libya draw away to Togo * South Africa held by Ethiopia By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN, June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Nigeria and South Africa both left it late on Sunday to salvage points at the start of their bids to qualify for the World Cup on a day that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}