{"id":17920,"date":"2013-02-09T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/final-brings-curtain-down-on-fabulous-football\/"},"modified":"2013-02-09T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:13:18","slug":"final-brings-curtain-down-on-fabulous-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/final-brings-curtain-down-on-fabulous-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Final brings curtain down on fabulous football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday sees the 29th Africa Cup of Nations final, with favourites Nigeria taking on rank outsiders Burkina Faso in Johannesburg to bring down the curtain on what has been a fabulous three weeks of football in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The showdown is a repeat of these two nations\u2019 Group C opener, which ended in a 1-1 draw, although both sides go into the contest with differing emotions.<\/p>\n

For the Super Eagles, this represents a chance to win their first continental title since 1994, and third overall, in what is their first appearance in the final since 2000.<\/p>\n

However, Sunday\u2019s showpiece event is the Stallions\u2019 first ever Afcon final and they enter it without top scorer Alain Traore due to a thigh injury picked up in the group stages against Zambia.<\/p>\n

Influential winger Jonathan Pitroipa, who was harshly sent off in their semi-final victory over Ghana, has had his suspension overturned and is now eligible to play in the final. \u2013 bleacherreport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday sees the 29th Africa Cup of Nations final, with favourites Nigeria taking on rank outsiders Burkina Faso in Johannesburg to bring down the curtain on what has been a fabulous three weeks of football in South Africa. The showdown is a repeat of these two nations\u2019 Group C opener, which ended in a 1-1 […]<\/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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/17920","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=17920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}