{"id":31017,"date":"2016-07-06T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=31017"},"modified":"2016-07-06T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T22:45:34","slug":"algeria-reportedly-cancels-soccer-match-with-ghana-because-of-israeli-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/algeria-reportedly-cancels-soccer-match-with-ghana-because-of-israeli-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria reportedly cancels soccer match with Ghana because of Israeli coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Don&#8217;t hate the player, hate the Jewish coach, might be Algeria&#8217;s sports motto.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria&#8217;s soccer team is reportedly pulling out of a friendly match with Ghana because they have an Israeli head coach, according to The Times of Israel reporting from Ghanaian media.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Algerian team canceled the match scheduled for September to ensure that Avram Grant did not step foot in their country, which could potentially infuriate the Algerian people who embrace a pro-Palestinian agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian journalist Ayman Gada posted to Facebook that \u201cthe Algerian national team canceled the friendly match because it refused to host Ghana&#8217;s Israeli coach,\u201d the Times of Israel said.<\/p>\n<p>Grant, a veteran coach of the English soccer team Chelsea, has been coaching the West African nation&#8217;s team for the past two years.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Algeria%20reportedly%20cancels%20soccer%20match%20with%20Ghana%20because%20of%20Israeli%20coach\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[7945,5152,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31018,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017\/revisions\/31018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}