{"id":65620,"date":"2025-05-12T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65620"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:33:36","slug":"bameyi-vows-payback-as-flying-eagles-eye-world-cup-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/12\/bameyi-vows-payback-as-flying-eagles-eye-world-cup-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Bameyi Vows Payback as Flying Eagles Eye World Cup Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Captain of Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles, Daniel Bameyi, says the team is fired up for revenge as they prepare to battle Senegal in a crucial quarter-final showdown at the 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations today.<\/p>\n<p>The match, set to take place at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia, reignites a rivalry that saw Nigeria lose 1\u20130 to the Senegalese two years ago in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the stakes are higher \u2014 a win secures a spot at the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>Bameyi, the only squad member with U-20 World Cup experience, said the bitter memory of that defeat still lingers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t forget that game. We lost narrowly and it still hurts. This is more than just a quarter-final \u2014 it is our final,\u201d he declared during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the team\u2019s ultimate goal is qualification for the World Cup. \u201cWe are playing the defending champions. It will be tough, but we must win. We are hungry for the World Cup. Everyone here wants it badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clash promises fireworks, with both teams gunning not just for progression but for pride. For Nigeria, it is also personal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Captain of Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles, Daniel Bameyi, says the team is fired up for revenge as they prepare to battle Senegal in a crucial quarter-final showdown at the 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations today. The match, set to take place at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia, reignites a rivalry that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65620","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=65620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65622,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65620\/revisions\/65622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}