{"id":168781,"date":"2025-07-08T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:05:06","slug":"home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024","title":{"rendered":"Home Eagles begin preparation for CHAN 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The home-based Super Eagles have started preparations for the 2024 African Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p>21 players took part in the team\u2019s first training session at the Remo Stars Stadium, Ikenne on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 14 players are expected to hit camp on Tuesday (today).<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Eric Chelle named a 35-man provisional list for the competition last week.<\/p>\n<p>The team is expected to engage in series of friendlies while in camp.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will face defending champions Senegal, Sudan, and Congo in Group D at the CHAN 2024 finals.<\/p>\n<p>Chelle\u2019s side will start their campaign against Senegal at the Amman Stadium, Zanzibar on Tuesday, 7 August.<\/p>\n<p>They are making a return to the competition after missing the last two editions.<\/p>\n<p>The CHAN 2024 finals which will be hosted by three countries will run from Saturday, 2 August to Saturday 30, August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The home-based Super Eagles have started preparations for the 2024 African Nations Championship. 21 players took part in the team\u2019s first training session at the Remo Stars Stadium, Ikenne on Monday night. The remaining 14 players are expected to hit camp on Tuesday (today). Head coach Eric Chelle named a 35-man provisional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[17968,8440,254],"class_list":["post-168781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-chan-2024","tag-home-eagles","tag-nigeria"],"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>Home Eagles begin preparation for CHAN 2024 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The home-based Super Eagles have started preparations for the 2024 African Nations Championship. 21 players took part i ...\" \/>\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\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Home Eagles begin preparation for CHAN 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The home-based Super Eagles have started preparations for the 2024 African Nations Championship. 21 players took part i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T09:58:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T11:05:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751960198.314235.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"799\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"451\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Home Eagles begin preparation for CHAN 2024\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-08T09:58:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-08T11:05:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751960198.314235.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CHAN 2024\",\"Home Eagles\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/home-eagles-begin-preparation-for-chan-2024\",\"name\":\"Home Eagles begin preparation for CHAN 2024 - 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