{"id":11709,"date":"2019-06-19T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11709"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:19:42","slug":"nigerias-defeat-a-shame-mikel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-defeat-a-shame-mikel","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s defeat, a shame \u2013 Mikel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Mikel Obi, regretted the loss of Super Falcons to France.<\/p>\n<p>He assured the Falcons of Super Eagles\u2019 support.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI just want to say well done for your efforts. You (Falcons) have been doing wonderfully well. Though you lost on Monday, you\u2019ve given your best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to say much before I get into trouble. You are doing wonderfully well but it is a shame you lost. Keep giving your best because you can make it. We are all behind you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Mikel Obi, regretted the loss of Super Falcons to France. He assured the Falcons of Super Eagles\u2019 support. He said, \u201cI just want to say well done for your efforts. You (Falcons) have been doing wonderfully well. Though you lost on Monday, you\u2019ve given your best. \u201cI don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,392,446,122,453],"class_list":["post-11709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-league","tag-obi-mikel","tag-sports","tag-super-eagles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria\u2019s defeat, a shame \u2013 Mikel - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-defeat-a-shame-mikel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s defeat, a shame \u2013 Mikel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Captain of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Mikel Obi, regretted the loss of Super Falcons to France. 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