{"id":47180,"date":"2024-09-05T07:34:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T07:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47180"},"modified":"2024-09-05T07:34:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T07:34:58","slug":"afcon-2025q-super-battle-ready-for-rohrs-benin-republic-troost-ekong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/05\/afcon-2025q-super-battle-ready-for-rohrs-benin-republic-troost-ekong\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025Q: Super Battle Ready For Rohr\u2019s Benin Republic \u2014 Troost-Ekong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles captain, William Troost-Ekong says the team is ready to face their former head coach, Gernot Rohr and his Benin Republic team again.<br \/>\nNigeria will entertain the Cheetahs in a 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday one tie at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rohr, who managed the Super Eagles in the past masterminded Benin Republic\u2019s 2-1 victory over their neighbours in June.<br \/>\nTroost-Ekong reckoned the Frenchman have deep knowledge of the Super Eagles but insisted the result will be different this time around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ready for the game, playing against Gernot Rohr, a coach that knows us very well, was with us up to five years but we\u2019ll be ready for the game,\u201d Troost-Ekong told reporters in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>The centre-back however said that the players must be ready to do their best on the pitch.<br \/>\n\u201cI think it is our job. The coach adds to the team and organize the team but the responsibility is the players,\u201d added the Al-Khaloood of Saudi Arabia defender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles captain, William Troost-Ekong says the team is ready to face their former head coach, Gernot Rohr and his Benin Republic team again. Nigeria will entertain the Cheetahs in a 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday one tie at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo on Saturday. Rohr, who managed the Super Eagles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-47180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-troost-ekong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180","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=47180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47182,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180\/revisions\/47182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}