{"id":969,"date":"2012-02-07T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=969"},"modified":"2012-02-07T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:02:27","slug":"aubameyang-leads-gabon-against-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/aubameyang-leads-gabon-against-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubameyang leads Gabon against Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Striker Aubameyang is having a good tournament for host nation Gabon. AFP PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He has scored three goals in as many matches during the group stages at the current 28th edition of Orange African Cup of Nations, and has been hailed as Gabonese equivalent to Cameroon\u2019s star striker Samuel Eto\u2019o. But all that will be history unless Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang helps Les Panthers past Mali into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old lanky striker, born in France and currently playing for French Ligue 1 side St Etienne, has been the revelation of a tournament lacking quality strikers after the disappointment of losing Senegal\u2019s quartet \u2013Demba Ba, Mamadou Niang, Moussa Sow and Papiss Cisse following their team\u2019s shock exit.<\/p>\n

Aubameyang\u2019s movement, work rate and creativity have also been exciting for the tournament which has lacked spark in the final third. It is no coincidence he has been hailed as the \u2018Eto\u2019o\u2019 of the tournament by locals, who perhaps have wished the Russian-based striker was part of the tournament. Eto\u2019o watched Gabon\u2019s opening match against Niger.<\/p>\n

Audrey Minto\u2019o, a tomatoe dealer in small trading centre about 3kms from the stadium, has not seen either player (Aubameyang and Eto\u2019o) in action but was full of adulation for the Gabon forward.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cCeci est notre Eto\u2019o fils.\u201d This writer, who can barely understand French, had to rely on a guide who translated what the lady meant. \u201cThis is our son Eto\u2019o,\u201d the Minto\u2019o said.<\/p>\n

Claude Le Roy, on commentary duty for one of French Radios, is also impressed with the young striker. \u201cHe has shown great insight on his game; the three goals he scored have shown how mature he is. He is a player who is both technical and agile. He has many other qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Aubameyang himself? \u201cThe team spirit has made us strong. Our coach (Gernot Rohr) has told us to fight for each and every ball, be aggressive and fight to the end. We showed that against Morocco when we scored three late goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to win this trophy. I would be glad if my goals help the team to win,\u201d explained the striker with a hairstyle similar to Neymar\u2019s cockscomb. Aubameyang started his professional career with Italian giants AC Milan.<\/p>\n

He then joined French sides Dijon (2008-09), Lille (2009-10) and Monaco (2010-11), all on loan until sealing a switch to Saint-Etienne last December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He has scored three goals in as many matches during the group stages at the current 28th edition of Orange African Cup of Nations, and has been hailed as Gabonese equivalent to Cameroon\u2019s star striker Samuel Eto\u2019o. But all that will be history unless Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang helps Les Panthers past Mali into the semi-finals. The 22-year-old lanky striker, born in France and currently playing for French Ligue 1 side St Etienne, has been the revelation of a tournament lacking quality strikers after the disappointment of losing Senegal\u2019s quartet \u2013Demba Ba, Mamadou Niang, Moussa Sow and Papiss Cisse following their team\u2019s shock exit. Aubameyang\u2019s movement, work rate and creativity have also been exciting for the tournament which has lacked spark in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}