{"id":76649,"date":"2025-10-14T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76649"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:36:09","slug":"2026-wcq-benin-captain-vows-to-beat-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/14\/2026-wcq-benin-captain-vows-to-beat-super-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: Benin Captain Vows to Beat Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benin Republic captain, Steve Mounie, says the Cheetahs are fully motivated ahead of their crucial 2026 World Cup Qualifier against the Super Eagles of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Mounie told reporters that the team understands the importance of the fixture and will fight hard to secure all three points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I need to motivate my teammates much. We all know what we\u2019re playing for, which is bigger than any individual,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone knows what to do to get qualification. We\u2019ll give our best on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The match kicks off at 5 p.m. (Nigeria time).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Benin Republic captain, Steve Mounie, says the Cheetahs are fully motivated ahead of their crucial 2026 World Cup Qualifier against the Super Eagles of Nigeria. Mounie told reporters that the team understands the importance of the fixture and will fight hard to secure all three points. \u201cI don\u2019t think I need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76649","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\/76649","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=76649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76651,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76649\/revisions\/76651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}