{"id":744,"date":"2012-06-14T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2012-06-14T18:24:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:24:01","slug":"de-kruif-returns-as-heartland-rides-on-wikki-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"DE KRUIF RETURNS AS HEARTLAND RIDES ON WIKKI TOURIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heartland\u2019s Dutch technical adviser, Lodewijk de Kruif is expected at his duty post next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman left for his country home,Hollandin May shortly after his side\u2019s CAF confederation Cup tie against DR Congo\u2019s AC Leopards in Owerri to attend to some pressing family issues with the expresse permission of his employer.<\/p>\n<p>General Manager of Heartland Fan Ndubuoke who flayed the speculation around his return however disclosed to newsmen that the Dutchman\u2019s return date was agreed upon by both parties before he left forHolland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is getting his documents ready for his journey back to his duty post Heartland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are engaging in an unnecessary speculation, when we gave him leave to sort himself out, we made it clear that his absence would be temporary\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, many people misconstrued our position preferring instead to announce that Heartland have sacked their technical adviser.<\/p>\n<p>His contract ends in August not June, he actually resumed in March not January as being speculated\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heartland management had at the wake of the Dutchman\u2019s departure hired the former Sharks and Plateau United Manager, Nduka Ndubuisi as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Heartland on Wednesday 13<sup>th<\/sup> June humbled Wikki tourist of Bauchi by defeating them 2 goals to nill, in a week 32 Nigerian Premier League game played at the Dan Anyiam stadium Owerri.<\/p>\n<p>The hard fighting Wikki boys, who were placed directly behind Heartland on 13<sup>th<\/sup> position of the league table before the match, concede the two goals in the 25<sup>th<\/sup> and 37<sup>th<\/sup> minute of play.<\/p>\n<p>Chibuzor Okonwo\u2019s sliced short bounced off the ground and looped into the goal beating the keeper Sunday Okoh for Wikki. Some minutes after Kabiru Umar pounced on a loose ball after the keeper Okoh collided with his defender to grabb the second goal.<\/p>\n<p>However, the centre referee did not award the penalty that could have guaranteed the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the 65<sup>th<\/sup> minute when the keeper Okoh tripped Kofamata Bello who was released by Chidozie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Heartland with this win now has 44 points out of 28 matches and is expected to travel toMinna,Nigerstate to keep a date on Sunday with Tornadoes in a rescheduled NPL game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartland\u2019s Dutch technical adviser, Lodewijk de Kruif is expected at his duty post next Wednesday.<\/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-744","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=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}