{"id":81275,"date":"2026-01-08T05:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81275"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:22:23","slug":"afcon-2026-stay-united-chase-title-onazi-urges-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/08\/afcon-2026-stay-united-chase-title-onazi-urges-super-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2026:\u00a0Stay United, Chase Title, Onazi Urges Super Eagles\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Super Eagles midfielder Ogenyi Onazi has urged the Nigerian team to remain focused and united as they push for glory at the 2026 Africa Cup of Nations, warning that anything short of the title would be disappointing for such a talented squad.<\/p>\n<p>Onazi, a member of Nigeria\u2019s 2013 AFCON-winning team, said the players must avoid distractions and seize the opportunity to etch their names in the nation\u2019s football history, noting that continental success brings pride to both players and country.<\/p>\n<p>His comments followed reports of a brief on-field disagreement between Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman during Nigeria\u2019s 4-0 win over Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Federation, however, said the issue was resolved internally.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Eric Chelle also downplayed the incident, stressing unity ahead of Saturday\u2019s quarter-final clash with Algeria. Team captain Wilfred Ndidi described the moment as healthy competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria have won all four matches so far, scoring 12 goals without conceding, and are chasing a fourth AFCON title, their first since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Former Super Eagles midfielder Ogenyi Onazi has urged the Nigerian team to remain focused and united as they push for glory at the 2026 Africa Cup of Nations, warning that anything short of the title would be disappointing for such a talented squad. Onazi, a member of Nigeria\u2019s 2013 AFCON-winning team, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81275","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=81275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81277,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81275\/revisions\/81277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}