{"id":1509,"date":"2012-08-20T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:44:26","slug":"enugu-wins-eastern-vetrans-football-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"ENUGU WINS EASTERN VETRANS FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EnuguAll \u2013 Stars team on Sunday picked the sole ticket to represent the eastern states in the forth coming Veterans cup inAbujathis August.<\/p>\n<p>Three All \u2013 Stars teams fromEnugu(host), Anambra andImoStateparticipated in the two day qualifying championship. Abia pulled out at the late hour due to the death of one of their members.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game, Imo defeated the host Enugu by a lone goal on Saturday, while Enugu made amends in the second game by beating Anambra with the same score line.<\/p>\n<p>Imo however lost to Anambra 0 \u2013 1 to leave the tournament open. The organizers then decided to determine the winner through the gamble and lottery of penalties asEnuguwon it by beating Imo 5 \u2013 2 and Anambra 3 \u2013 2 on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to <em>Imo Trumpeta<\/em> on their return, Mr Ray Ebede, PA to the Special Adviser on sports in Imo state Ambs, Kanu Nwankwo who travelled with the team expressed that it was a great reunion of the stars of yesterday coming together to do what they loved so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith players like Casmir Mbachu, Kingsley Obiekwu, Emeka Nwobodo, Mike Obi, Willy Udube, Ifeanyi Onyedika, Johnny Anyagwa, Joe Ubanwa and many others, it seemed like the Nigeria league of the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was fun, though we lost, but you know when the game of football enters into penalty, it is no longer any body\u2019s game as we weren\u2019t lucky enough\u201d, said Ebede.<\/p>\n<p>EnuguAll \u2013 Stars team lead by Ifeanyi Onyedika will now represent the South \u2013 East at the Veterans Cup inAbujasome time this August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 EnuguAll \u2013 Stars team on Sunday picked the sole ticket to represent the eastern<\/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-1509","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\/1509","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=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}