{"id":54927,"date":"2024-11-06T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=54927"},"modified":"2024-11-06T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:25:42","slug":"oliseh-super-eagles-cant-afford-to-miss-out-on-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/06\/oliseh-super-eagles-cant-afford-to-miss-out-on-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliseh: Super Eagles Can\u2019t Afford to Miss Out on 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles Head Coach, Sunday Oliseh has said it is important for the Super Eagles to earn a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles failed to qualify for last edition of the global soccer fiesta hosted by Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The West Africans have endured a poor start to the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign failing to record a win from four games.<\/p>\n<p>Augustine Eguavoen\u2019s side are second from bottom in their group with three points.<\/p>\n<p>Oliseh said it would be a disaster if they failed to qualify for the mundial for the second consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica could be represented by as many as 10 countries at the next World Cup, we\u2019re at the risk of not being one of these countries and it will be a disaster if Nigeria do not qualify,\u201d Oliseh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar for six weeks working on the FIFA study Group and it was painful that Nigeria were not there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles Head Coach, Sunday Oliseh has said it is important for the Super Eagles to earn a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Super Eagles failed to qualify for last edition of the global soccer fiesta hosted by Qatar. The West Africans have endured a poor start to the 2026 World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-54927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-super-eagles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927","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=54927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54932,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927\/revisions\/54932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}