{"id":26257,"date":"2016-12-13T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=26257"},"modified":"2016-12-13T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:06:55","slug":"riyad-mahrez-crowned-bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/riyad-mahrez-crowned-bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Riyad Mahrez crowned BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Fans from across the world voted for the Algeria and Leicester midfielder ahead of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Andre Ayew, Sadio Mane and Yaya Toure.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Mahrez, 25, told BBC Sport: &#8220;It means a lot, it&#8217;s something big for African players so I am very happy, I am very proud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always good to receive awards and for African players it&#8217;s a huge honour. To all the fans, thank you very much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Also I want to thank the Algeria fans and dedicate this to them as well and for my family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just have to carry on and keep going with my football and see what I can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By BBC Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans from across the world voted for the Algeria and Leicester midfielder ahead of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Andre Ayew, Sadio Mane and Yaya Toure. Winger Mahrez, 25, told BBC Sport: &#8220;It means a lot, it&#8217;s something big for African players so I am very happy, I am very proud. &#8220;It&#8217;s always good to receive awards and for African players it&#8217;s a huge honour. To all the fans, thank you very much.&#8221; He added: &#8220;Also I want to thank the Algeria fans and dedicate this to them as well and for my family. &#8220;I just have to carry on and keep going with my football and see what I can do.&#8221; By BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}