{"id":68242,"date":"2025-06-16T17:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68242"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:16:21","slug":"alloy-agu-confident-in-super-eagles-world-cup-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/16\/alloy-agu-confident-in-super-eagles-world-cup-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Alloy Agu Confident in Super Eagles&#8217; World Cup Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Nigerian international and ex-Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer, Alloy Agu, has expressed confidence in Nigeria\u2019s chances of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup despite a disappointing start to their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is currently fifth in their qualifying group with just three points from four matches, following a 2-1 loss to Benin Republic and a 1-1 draw with South Africa. However, Agu believes the team still has what it takes to secure a spot at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is too early to write off the Super Eagles,&#8221; Agu said. &#8220;I am still optimistic that the team will pick the World Cup ticket. It may be a tough challenge, but Nigeria knows how to rise to the occasion when the chips are down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With six games left to play in the qualifiers, Agu urged fans and stakeholders to continue supporting the team, adding that a turnaround is still possible with determination and focus.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come as pressure mounts on the players and coaching crew to improve results and restore hope of World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Former Nigerian international and ex-Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer, Alloy Agu, has expressed confidence in Nigeria\u2019s chances of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup despite a disappointing start to their campaign. Nigeria is currently fifth in their qualifying group with just three points from four matches, following a 2-1 loss to Benin Republic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68242","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68244,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68242\/revisions\/68244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}