{"id":13967,"date":"2019-08-09T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=13967"},"modified":"2019-08-09T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:47:26","slug":"super-eagles-to-face-ukraine-in-friendly-september-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-eagles-to-face-ukraine-in-friendly-september-10","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles To Face Ukraine In Friendly September 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles will face Ukraine in an international friendly match on September 10 in Kiev,.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the Super Eagles\u2019 first outing since their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Third-Place match in Cairo Egypt against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia which The Gernot Rohr\u2019s team won 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick made the announcement via the Social Media on Friday<\/p>\n<p>Pinnick\u2019s Tweet informs the game is part of his administration\u2019s initiative to expose more players to international football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have secured a Grade A international friendly match for the Super Eagles against the Ukraine in Kiev, on the 10th of September. It is part of our ongoing drive to expose as many players as we can to global football, so this should be another springboard for our national team development,\u201d reads the Tweet on Pinnick\u2019s Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>The game will serve as part of preparation for the Super Eagles\u2019 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying games against the Squirrels of Benin billed to hold on November 11 at a yet to be named venue in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Gernot Rohr\u2019s men finished in third position at the AFCON 2019 finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles will face Ukraine in an international friendly match on September 10 in Kiev,. It will be the Super Eagles\u2019 first outing since their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Third-Place match in Cairo Egypt against the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia which The Gernot Rohr\u2019s team won 1-0. President of the Nigeria Football Federation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,111,122,453],"class_list":["post-13967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-nigerian-national-team","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 To Face Ukraine In Friendly September 10 - 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-to-face-ukraine-in-friendly-september-10\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Super Eagles To Face Ukraine In Friendly September 10\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles will face Ukraine in an international friendly match on September 10 in Kiev,. 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