{"id":76269,"date":"2025-10-08T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76269"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:41:00","slug":"super-eagles-can-qualify-for-2026-world-cup-if-mikel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/08\/super-eagles-can-qualify-for-2026-world-cup-if-mikel\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Can Qualify for 2026 World Cup if&#8230;-Mikel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, says Nigeria can still qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup if the players show determination and win their remaining matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles, currently third in Group C with 11 points from eight games, will face Lesotho on Friday in Polokwane before hosting Benin Republic next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a crime if Nigeria fails to qualify for the World Cup again,\u201d Mikel said, urging the players to \u201cfight hard and take responsibility\u201d in the final two games.<\/p>\n<p>He added that off-field issues should be set aside as Nigerians are counting on the team to deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Former Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, says Nigeria can still qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup if the players show determination and win their remaining matches. The Super Eagles, currently third in Group C with 11 points from eight games, will face Lesotho on Friday in Polokwane before hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76269","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\/76269","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=76269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76271,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76269\/revisions\/76271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}