{"id":17621,"date":"2019-11-05T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T14:19:35","slug":"golden-eaglets-must-place-personal-glory-aside-against-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/golden-eaglets-must-place-personal-glory-aside-against-the-netherlands","title":{"rendered":"Golden Eaglets must place personal glory aside against the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"teaser\">The football grassroots exponent claims Manu Garba\u2019s boys must become less selfish in front of goal to scale the Oranje hurdle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">Olatunji Samuel Okuku believes\u00a0<a class=\"crossLinks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/team\/nigeria\/ao3zo8i0kn3grl47nol24gck0\">Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0can defeat the\u00a0<a class=\"crossLinks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/team\/netherlands\/657oha8nkne1ybba2bouzkbo7\">Netherlands<\/a> if their players tone down their obsession with goals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">Still fresh from their 2-1 defeat to\u00a0<a class=\"crossLinks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/team\/australia\/bl4fd8cxe6kjvjx8br82gkhnq\">Australia<\/a>, the Golden Eaglets face the Oranje in Wednesday\u2019s 2019 U17 World Cup Round of 16 fixture.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>The five-time world champions have found the net just eight times in three games despite a staggering 74 attempts at goal.<\/p>\n<p>Although not downplaying the quality in Manu Garba\u2019s squad, the football administrator feels the team is still missing a few crucial ingredients and stressed the players have to learn when to go for goal themselves and when to pass it to a teammate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAcom\/status\/1191177260348399618\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAcom\/status\/1191177260348399618\" data-tweet-id=\"1191177260348399618\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The football grassroots exponent claims Manu Garba\u2019s boys must become less selfish in front of goal to scale the Oranje hurdle. 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Still fresh from their 2-1 defeat to\u00a0Australia, the Golden Eaglets face the Oranje in Wednesday\u2019s 2019 U17 World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115,879],"class_list":["post-17621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports","tag-u17-world-cup"],"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>Golden Eaglets must place personal glory aside against the Netherlands - 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\/golden-eaglets-must-place-personal-glory-aside-against-the-netherlands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Golden Eaglets must place personal glory aside against the Netherlands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The football grassroots exponent claims Manu Garba\u2019s boys must become less selfish in front of goal to scale the Oranje hurdle. 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