{"id":857,"date":"2012-07-11T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2012-07-11T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:41:41","slug":"south-sudan-draw-withugandain-first-ever-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan draw withUgandain first ever match"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mr.-orji.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-858\" title=\"mr. orji\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mr.-orji.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mr.-orji.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mr.-orji-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>South Sudan&#8217;s first officially recognized game since the country was admitted\u00a0<a title=\"South Sudan voted into Fifa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/18210048\"><strong>into the world governing body Fifa ended in a draw.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Known as the Bright Star, the team drew 2-2 with 10-manUganda, who are East and Central African regional champions.<\/p>\n<p>The match in the capital, Juba, comes a day after South Sudan marked its first anniversary of\u00a0<a title=\"South Sudanese celebrate their divorce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-14091903\"><strong>independence from Sudan.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Salva Kiir did not attend the game but 22,000 cheering fans sawSouth Sudancame from behind twice.<\/p>\n<p>Caesar Okuthi gave the visitors the lead in the seventh minute but was then sent off 15 minutes later for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n<p>His dismissal cam minutes after immediately after the hosts had equalized through Richard Justin, who converted a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing with 10-menUgandadominated against their inexperienced hosts and only some great saves from South Sudan goalkeeper Jumma Genaro, who plays inSudan.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Ogwang gaveUgandaa 2-1 lead after 33 minutes after a mistake by Genaro, who fumbled the shot and allowed it to cross the line.<\/p>\n<p>Then three minutes before half-timeIndiabased professional James Joseph made it 2-2 with a fine header.<\/p>\n<p>The second half was more evenly balanced and both sides failed to capitalise on the chances they had to win the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Cranes assistant coach Leo Adra said he was satisfied with the result.<\/p>\n<p>WhileSouth Sudan&#8217;s Serbian coach Zoran Djordjevic was happy to get a draw against the experienced Ugandan team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Playing against a well exposed side likeUgandaand getting a draw is a very good start,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan will now send a team, Salaam Wau FC, for the East and Central African regional club tournament, the Cecafa Kagame Club Championships, which begin in Dar-es-Salaam,Tanzaniaon 14 July.<\/p>\n<p>The national team have already confirmed they\u00a0<a title=\"South Sudan set for Cecafa cups\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/18504126\"><strong>will play in East and Central Africa&#8217;s regional championship<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup &#8211; later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudan&#8217;s first officially recognized game since the country was admitted\u00a0into the world governing body<\/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-857","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\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}