{"id":15555,"date":"2012-10-14T05:55:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/rpt-wrapup-1-soccer-drogba-double-for-ivorians-sparks-riot-in-dakar\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T05:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T03:55:42","slug":"rpt-wrapup-1-soccer-drogba-double-for-ivorians-sparks-riot-in-dakar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-wrapup-1-soccer-drogba-double-for-ivorians-sparks-riot-in-dakar\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-WRAPUP 1-Soccer-Drogba double for Ivorians sparks riot in Dakar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds ZA topic code)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Senegal game abandoned after Ivory Coast score twice<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Riot police fire tear gas in packed Dakar stadium<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Holders Zambia scrape through to next year&#8217;s finals<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ghana first to qualify for South Africa tournament<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Gleeson<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, Oct 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Two goals from Ivory Coast&#8217;s<br \/>\nDidier Drogba sparked a riot in Senegal on Saturday forcing the<br \/>\nabandonment of the biggest African Nations Cup qualifier of the<br \/>\nweekend after police fired tear gas in the stadium.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trouble in Dakar overshadowed qualification for Ghana,<br \/>\nMali, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and holders Zambia who are all<br \/>\nthrough to the finals in South Africa in January.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Drogba&#8217;s latest talismanic performance proved too much for<br \/>\nthe Senegal fans who invaded the pitch, threw objects and lit<br \/>\nsmall fires in the packed stands after their team went 2-0 down<br \/>\nand 6-2 behind on aggregate in the final round tie.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds ZA topic code) * Senegal game abandoned after Ivory Coast score twice * Riot police fire tear gas in packed Dakar stadium * Holders Zambia scrape through to next year&#8217;s finals * Ghana first to qualify for South Africa tournament By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN, Oct 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Two goals from Ivory Coast&#8217;s [&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-15555","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\/15555","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=15555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}