{"id":28072,"date":"2024-04-19T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=28072"},"modified":"2024-04-19T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:05:23","slug":"sports-minister-new-super-eagles-coach-to-be-named-within-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/19\/sports-minister-new-super-eagles-coach-to-be-named-within-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister: New Super Eagles Coach to be Named Within Two Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Minister John Enoh has announced that the appointment of the new Super Eagles head coach will be finalized within the next two weeks. The position has been vacant since Jose Peseiro&#8217;s contract expired at the end of February.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has shortlisted three coaches for the prestigious role.<\/p>\n<p>Enoh assured that the NFF has conducted a thorough selection process to ensure the Super Eagles qualify for the World Cup after a lackluster start. The team&#8217;s initial World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Zimbabwe ended in draws last December.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the urgency of the situation, Enoh emphasized the importance of securing qualification for the next World Cup, stating, &#8220;We didn&#8217;t qualify for the last World Cup, and we can&#8217;t afford to miss the next edition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Minister John Enoh has announced that the appointment of the new Super Eagles head coach will be finalized within the next two weeks. The position has been vacant since Jose Peseiro&#8217;s contract expired at the end of February. Reportedly, the technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has shortlisted three coaches for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[843],"class_list":["post-28072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports-minister"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28072","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28093,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28072\/revisions\/28093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}