{"id":62604,"date":"2025-03-11T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62604"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:51:50","slug":"super-eagles-coach-chelle-names-final-23-man-squad-for-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/11\/super-eagles-coach-chelle-names-final-23-man-squad-for-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Coach Chelle Names Final 23-Man Squad for World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has finalized his 23-man squad for Nigeria\u2019s crucial 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated list, expected to be officially unveiled by 3:00 pm today, follows intense debate over Chelle\u2019s earlier 39-man provisional selection.<\/p>\n<p>Sources suggest some surprise inclusions as the team prepares for must-win matches.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, currently fifth in their qualification group with just three points from four games, will face Rwanda in Kigali on March 21 before hosting Zimbabwe in Uyo on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>The squad will begin training in Kigali on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has finalized his 23-man squad for Nigeria\u2019s crucial 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and Zimbabwe. The highly anticipated list, expected to be officially unveiled by 3:00 pm today, follows intense debate over Chelle\u2019s earlier 39-man provisional selection. Sources suggest some surprise inclusions as the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62604","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62606,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62604\/revisions\/62606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}