{"id":12835,"date":"2019-07-15T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T14:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=12835"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T14:53:19","slug":"super-eagles-captain-responds-wailing-fans-following-defeat-to-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-eagles-captain-responds-wailing-fans-following-defeat-to-algeria","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles captain responds Wailing Fans following defeat to Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Musa has reached out to fans following Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 semi-final defeat to Algeria, and has vowed the Eagles will bounce back.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles lost to an Algeria side inspired by their captain, Riyad Mahrez, who struck a late winner to break Nigerian hearts inside the Cairo International stadium and world over.<\/p>\n<p>Musa tweeted, the morning after the game, extend gratitude to the fans and recalling the disappointing outcome of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to say a massive thank you to all our supporters &amp; well wishers during this journey. Not the result we wanted but we gave it our best shot. We keep fighting till the end. Proud of you mates,\u201d the Eagles captain tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Musa has reached out to fans following Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 semi-final defeat to Algeria, and has vowed the Eagles will bounce back. The Super Eagles lost to an Algeria side inspired by their captain, Riyad Mahrez, who struck a late winner to break Nigerian hearts inside the Cairo International stadium and world over. Musa tweeted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,392,122,453],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-league","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>Super Eagles captain responds Wailing Fans following defeat to Algeria - 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\/super-eagles-captain-responds-wailing-fans-following-defeat-to-algeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Super Eagles captain responds Wailing Fans following defeat to Algeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahmed Musa has reached out to fans following Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 semi-final defeat to Algeria, and has vowed the Eagles will bounce back. 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