{"id":3701,"date":"2012-12-05T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2012-12-05T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:12:25","slug":"team-imo-crash-in-volley-ball-semi-final-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=3701","title":{"rendered":"Team Imo crash in volley- ball semi-final game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/volly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3702\" title=\"volly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/volly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/volly.jpg 599w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/volly-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Team Imo on Tuesday were defeated by team Ondo 3-1 in the semi-final of the ongoing 18<sup>th<\/sup> National sports festival (NSF) in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for supremacy between the two teams lasted for one hour and 15 minutes in the volley ball court at the Teslim Balogun stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Team Ondo will therefore lock horns with hosts Team Lagos, in the final, scheduled for 6 December.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach of team Imo, Uche Ugbonna expressed his disappointment at his team\u2019s feature to failure in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>He complained that his team got derailed by over confidence, which ruined the team\u2019s chances of playing in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Team Imo will now vie for the third place position with team Rivers for the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reports reaching <em>Imo Trumpeta<\/em> also \u00a0indicates that the Abula, Hockey and cricket teams from Imo have all crashed out of medal positions in their respective events.<\/p>\n<p>The state before the commencement of the festival games had high hopes of picking medals from the team events such as Abula, volleyball and the Hockey game.<\/p>\n<p>However, reports also do have it that Imo had as at Tuesday garnered 3 gold\u2019s, 5silver and 10 Bronze medals, and more is still being expected as the games enters its 10<sup>th<\/sup> day today.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that Imo Athletes only had 7days camping exercise and also had to fight with their officials for a 21 days camping allowance before their departure which many sports pundits to complain will psychologically distract the performance of the Athletes in their events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Team Imo on Tuesday were defeated by team Ondo 3-1 in the semi-final of<\/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-3701","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\/3701","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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}