{"id":22756,"date":"2013-09-21T02:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T00:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/pirates-ready-for-al-ahly\/"},"modified":"2013-09-21T02:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T00:59:43","slug":"pirates-ready-for-al-ahly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pirates-ready-for-al-ahly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates ready for Al Ahly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=17449\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17449\" alt=\"Orlando Pirates will relish taking on African giants Al Ahly at Orlando Stadium on Sunday, coach Roger de Sa said. Photo: Duif du Toit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/25026_4064961014.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Pirates will relish taking on African giants Al Ahly at Orlando Stadium on Sunday, coach Roger de Sa said. Photo: Duif du Toit<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Pirates will relish taking on African giants Al Ahly at Orlando Stadium on Sunday, coach Roger de Sa said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why we play football, why we compete, we want to have these moments,\u201d De Sa said on Friday, ahead of his side\u2019s final group A match against the Egyptians.<\/p>\n<p>It is now one game away from a semi-finals berth in the Caf Champions league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix months ago nobody thought we\u2019d be this close to the semifinals and now we just have to grab this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/first-three-points-of-premiership-season-for-pirates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates could move to top spot of the group if they beat Al Ahly and provided AC Leopards do not triumph over Zamalek in their match<\/a>. Pirates and Leopards are equal on seven points. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Orlando Pirates news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/orlando-pirates\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/25026_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Pirates will relish taking on African giants Al Ahly at Orlando Stadium on Sunday, coach Roger de Sa said. Photo: Duif du Toit Orlando Pirates will relish taking on African giants Al Ahly at Orlando Stadium on Sunday, coach Roger de Sa said. \u201cThis is why we play football, why we compete, we want [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22756","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\/22756","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=22756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}