{"id":7563,"date":"2023-11-23T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2023-11-23T11:08:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:08:34","slug":"2026-wcq-awaziem-backs-super-eagles-to-get-qualifying-campaign-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/23\/2026-wcq-awaziem-backs-super-eagles-to-get-qualifying-campaign-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: Awaziem Backs Super Eagles To Get Qualifying Campaign Back On Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chidozie Awaziem has said that the Super Eagles of Nigeria will bounce back following their disappointing results in 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles were held to a 1-1 draw by minnows Lesotho on Thursday, November 16 at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>They also ended their match against the Warriors of Zimbabwe in a 1-1 stalemate on Sunday, November 19 at the Huye Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Following the string of disappointing results, Awaziem has urged Nigerians not to give up on the team on his X handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will bounce back and make the country proud\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/svg\/1f1f3-1f1ec.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/svg\/1f1f3-1f1ec.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/svg\/1f64f.svg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/svg\/1f64f.svg\" alt=\"\" \/>,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian team has been at six FIFA World Cup tournaments (USA 1994, France 1998, Korea\/Japan 2002, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018).<\/p>\n<p>They are third in Group C of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying series with two points after two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chidozie Awaziem has said that the Super Eagles of Nigeria will bounce back following their disappointing results in 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers The Eagles were held to a 1-1 draw by minnows Lesotho on Thursday, November 16 at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium. They also ended their match against the Warriors of Zimbabwe in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-7563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-2026-wcq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7569,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions\/7569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}