{"id":72075,"date":"2025-08-05T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72075"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:27:15","slug":"super-eagles-b-coach-chelle-optimistic-ahead-of-senegal-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/super-eagles-b-coach-chelle-optimistic-ahead-of-senegal-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles B Coach Chelle Optimistic Ahead of Senegal Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles B head coach \u00c9ric Chelle says his team is fully prepared for their opening Group D fixture against Senegal in the 2025 African Nations Championship (CHAN).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a pre-match press conference, Chelle acknowledged Senegal\u2019s strength and football pedigree but noted that Nigeria has undergone intense tactical training and is mentally ready for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the focus is solely on the match against Senegal and declined to look ahead to future group opponents like Congo and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The match is set for Tuesday at the Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar. It marks Nigeria\u2019s return to the CHAN tournament after missing recent editions.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles B last featured in 2018 when they finished as runners-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Super Eagles B head coach \u00c9ric Chelle says his team is fully prepared for their opening Group D fixture against Senegal in the 2025 African Nations Championship (CHAN). Speaking at a pre-match press conference, Chelle acknowledged Senegal\u2019s strength and football pedigree but noted that Nigeria has undergone intense tactical training and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72075","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\/72075","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=72075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72077,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72075\/revisions\/72077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}