{"id":77574,"date":"2025-10-27T07:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77574"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:47:45","slug":"super-eagles-to-face-egypt-in-pre-afcon-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/super-eagles-to-face-egypt-in-pre-afcon-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles to Face Egypt in Pre-AFCON Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles of Nigeria will take on Egypt in a friendly match as part of their preparations for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The match is scheduled to take place on Sunday, December 14, at the Cairo International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Both Nigeria and Egypt will use this friendly to gear up for the AFCON tournament, which is set to begin in Morocco on December 21. The Super Eagles are scheduled to start their training camp on December 10.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of coach \u00c9ric Chelle, the team is expected to play additional warm-up matches ahead of the competition. Meanwhile, Egypt will participate in a four-nation tournament in Dubai next month alongside Uzbekistan, Iran, and Cape Verde as part of their own preparation for AFCON 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles are drawn in Group C, alongside Uganda, Tunisia, and Tanzania, while the Pharaohs are in Group B, where they will face South Africa, Angola,\u00a0and\u00a0Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; The Super Eagles of Nigeria will take on Egypt in a friendly match as part of their preparations for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The match is scheduled to take place on Sunday, December 14, at the Cairo International Stadium. Both Nigeria and Egypt will use this friendly to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77574","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\/77574","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=77574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77576,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77574\/revisions\/77576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}