{"id":1427,"date":"2012-08-16T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2012-08-16T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:10:58","slug":"heartland-rehearses-with-gombe-ahead-of-federation-cup-semi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Heartland Rehearses with Gombe, ahead of Federation Cup Semi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heartland football club of Owerri on Wednesday set aside their protest over their upaid entitlements to pick full points against Gombe United in match day 37 of theNigeriaPremier League game.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Nduka Ndubuisi told reporters after the game that his side will be satisfied with fifth position at the end of the 2011\/12 NPL Season.<\/p>\n<p>With that result, the Naze \u2013 millionaire now have 52 points from 37 games with a game against Akwa United to end the season.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Chibuzor Okonkwo scored from the penalty spot in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> minute to give his side the lead but the visitors drew level in the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> minute through Ifeanyi Ezengwu.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was Philip Auta that finally got the winner for the current FA Cup kings in the 80<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Ndubuisi said his side wants to finish at a respectable position, \u201cif we finish among the first five it will be satisfactory for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will try to compensate our fans with the federation Cup title, we are in the semi finals and we are confident of advancing to the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoral is quite low at the moment, the only factor that will stand between us and the federation cup crown is motivation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the players are well motivated, Heartland will surely defend their title successfully\u201d said the former Plateau united gaffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartland football club of Owerri on Wednesday set aside their protest over their upaid entitlements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}