{"id":15049,"date":"2024-01-17T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:03:21","slug":"mogaji-charges-super-eagles-to-beat-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/17\/mogaji-charges-super-eagles-to-beat-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogaji Charges Super Eagles to Beat C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Executive Chairman of Kwara State Sports Commission, Bolakale Mogaji has charged the Super Eagles to defy all odds and beat host C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigeria will face C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire on Thursday (tomorrow) in their second match of the ongoing AFCON 2023 after being held by Guinea in their first match.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In an exclusive interview with Abdul Momoh and ashogo Shodunke at Palaais de la Culture de Treicchviille (Ivory Football house)\u00a0 Mogaji charged the team not to be discouraged by their results in the first game.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mogaji said, &#8220;We urge you to rather see the first match as a stepping stone to your success and glory by demonstrating the Nigerian spirit of determination, focus, resilience, discipline and conquest on and off the pitch.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mogaji who is currently in C\u00f4te D&#8217;Ivoire with his Director of sports kwara state sports commission revealed that the Arabs would have won the FIFA World Cup of prayers were the only way to lift the trophy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, &#8220;I believe in prayers but you have to work and pray. The players have to put much more effort against C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire because if prayers were the only key to win, the Arabians should have lifted the FIFA World Cup each time they participated.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Chairman of Kwara State Sports Commission, Bolakale Mogaji has charged the Super Eagles to defy all odds and beat host C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. Nigeria will face C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire on Thursday (tomorrow) in their second match of the ongoing AFCON 2023 after being held by Guinea in their first match. In an exclusive interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":15060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15101,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions\/15101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}