{"id":15458,"date":"2012-10-10T17:44:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/soccer-sudan-forfeit-world-cup-qualifier-against-zambia\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T15:44:35","slug":"soccer-sudan-forfeit-world-cup-qualifier-against-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-sudan-forfeit-world-cup-qualifier-against-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Sudan forfeit World Cup qualifier against Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BERNE<\/span> Oct 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Sudan&#8217;s 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Zambia has been overturned by FIFA&#8217;s disciplinary committee and a 3-0 win awarded to the Zambians instead, soccer&#8217;s governing body confirmed on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FIFA said in a statement that Sudan, also fined 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,384), had fielded an ineligible player in the match on June 2. Sudan have lodged an appeal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision means that African champions Zambia, who have never qualified for the World Cup, went top of African Group D with six points from two games. Sudan, who had led the group, dropped from first to third with four points.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is also a blow to 2010 World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana, who lost 1-0 to Zambia on June 9 and have three points from two games.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FIFA did not give further details. Zambian media reports said that Sudan&#8217;s Saif Ali, who scored the second goal, should not have been playing due to suspension.   (Reporting by Brian Homewood; Editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERNE Oct 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Sudan&#8217;s 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Zambia has been overturned by FIFA&#8217;s disciplinary committee and a 3-0 win awarded to the Zambians instead, soccer&#8217;s governing body confirmed on Wednesday. FIFA said in a statement that Sudan, also fined 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,384), had fielded an ineligible player in the [&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-15458","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\/15458","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=15458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}