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Monrovia \u2014 Liberia national team coach Thomas Kojo has defended his decision to leave Justin Salmon on the bench during the recent World Cup qualifiers against Tunisia and S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, amid growing criticism.<\/p>\n
Salmon, a key player for Norwegian second-tier club Egersund, was the only foreign-based player in the squad not to feature in either match, despite his impressive form, having scored five goals in 26 appearances for his club.<\/p>\n
His lack of playing time has sparked backlash from fans, former…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Monrovia \u2014 Liberia national team coach Thomas Kojo has defended his decision to leave Justin Salmon on the bench during the recent World Cup qualifiers against Tunisia and S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, amid growing criticism. Salmon, a key player for Norwegian second-tier club Egersund, was the only foreign-based player in the squad not to feature in either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,11850,6674,7430,7820,14541,37202,4712,1107,257,7318,48441,254,5093],"class_list":["post-194756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bench","tag-cup","tag-decision","tag-defends","tag-justin","tag-kojo","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-salmon","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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