{"id":54753,"date":"2024-11-05T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=54753"},"modified":"2024-11-05T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:31:28","slug":"flying-eagles-foreign-pros-to-play-u-20-afcon-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/05\/flying-eagles-foreign-pros-to-play-u-20-afcon-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Eagles: Foreign Pros to Play U-20 AFCON \u2014Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Eagles Head Coach, Aliyu Zubairu, has expressed his willingness to give foreign-based players the opportunity to join the team for the upcoming Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (AFCON).<\/p>\n<p>Following Nigeria\u2019s recent victory at the WAFU B U-20 Championship in Lome, Togo, the Flying Eagles are now shifting focus to the U-20 AFCON, set to be hosted in South Africa early next year.<\/p>\n<p>For the WAFU tournament, Zubairu selected only local players. However, he now plans to open the door for players based abroad to be part of the U-20 AFCON squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not hinder their participation and are committed to selecting those with the necessary skills,\u201d Zubairu stated during a meeting with members of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Kwara State Chapter, in Ilorin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Eagles Head Coach, Aliyu Zubairu, has expressed his willingness to give foreign-based players the opportunity to join the team for the upcoming Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (AFCON). Following Nigeria\u2019s recent victory at the WAFU B U-20 Championship in Lome, Togo, the Flying Eagles are now shifting focus to the U-20 AFCON, set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":54755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1628],"class_list":["post-54753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-flying-eagles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54753","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54793,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54753\/revisions\/54793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}