{"id":60080,"date":"2025-01-28T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60080"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:32:35","slug":"nff-president-confident-in-super-eagles-afcon-2025-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/28\/nff-president-confident-in-super-eagles-afcon-2025-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"NFF President Confident in Super Eagles&#8217; AFCON 2025 Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), President, Ibrahim Gusau, has expressed confidence in the Super Eagles\u2019 chances at the upcoming AFCON 2025 tournament. Reacting to the Group C draw, which placed Nigeria alongside Tunisia, Uganda, and Tanzania, Gusau described it as fair and assured fans of the team&#8217;s readiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a favorable group, and I\u2019m optimistic we will top it,\u201d Gusau stated, citing the team&#8217;s recent strong performances and progress under the current coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Gusau emphasized the importance of thorough preparation and teamwork, pledging that the NFF will provide full support to ensure the team&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do everything necessary to prepare the Super Eagles adequately. We are confident they will make Nigeria proud,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles, who finished as runners-up in the last AFCON in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, are aiming to claim their fourth title and end a 12-year drought.<\/p>\n<p>With the tournament approaching, Nigerian football fans eagerly anticipate the team\u2019s journey to reclaiming African football glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), President, Ibrahim Gusau, has expressed confidence in the Super Eagles\u2019 chances at the upcoming AFCON 2025 tournament. Reacting to the Group C draw, which placed Nigeria alongside Tunisia, Uganda, and Tanzania, Gusau described it as fair and assured fans of the team&#8217;s readiness. \u201cIt\u2019s a favorable group, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59,405],"class_list":["post-60080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-nff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60080","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60082,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60080\/revisions\/60082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}