{"id":74310,"date":"2025-08-27T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74310"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:19:53","slug":"super-eagles-nwabali-doubtful-for-rwanda-south-africa-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/27\/super-eagles-nwabali-doubtful-for-rwanda-south-africa-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles\u2019 Nwabali Doubtful for Rwanda, South Africa Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, is doubtful for Nigeria\u2019s upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and South Africa after sustaining an injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Chippa United shot-stopper was stretchered off in the 35th minute of his side\u2019s South African Premier Soccer League clash with Richards Bay on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nwabali now faces a race against time to be fit for the crucial fixtures. Other goalkeepers available in the squad include Adebayo Adeleye, Amas Obasogie, and Ebenezer Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will host Rwanda on September 6 at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, before traveling to face South Africa on September 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Super Eagles goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, is doubtful for Nigeria\u2019s upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and South Africa after sustaining an injury. The Chippa United shot-stopper was stretchered off in the 35th minute of his side\u2019s South African Premier Soccer League clash with Richards Bay on Tuesday night. Nwabali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74310","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\/74310","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=74310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74312,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310\/revisions\/74312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}