{"id":18776,"date":"2019-12-12T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2019-12-12T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:40:40","slug":"nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29","title":{"rendered":"NFF, UEFA, Chelsea Celebrate Ex-Eagles Star Moses At 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFF, Europe\u2019s football governing body UEFA and Chelsea have sent birthday wishes to former Nigeria international Victor Moses who turns 29 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating Moses on their verified Twitter handle, the NFF recalled Moses\u2019 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winning feat with the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy birthday to #Afcon2013 winner, @VictorMoses,\u201d the NFF wrote.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA recollects that Moses was a Europa League winner while at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy birthday, 2013 winner Victor Moses!\u201d UEFA wrote on their Europa League Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>While Chelsea wrote: \u201cHappy birthday, @VictorMoses!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moses made his Super Eagles debut in 2012 and retired from the national team in 2018 after making 38 appearances and scoring 12 goals.<\/p>\n<p>He scored two crucial penalties as the Eagles beat Ethiopia 2-0 in their last group game at the 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019_Africa_Cup_of_Nations\">AFCON<\/a> and qualify for the quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Eagles\u2019 only win in the group stage following disappointing draws against Burkina Faso and Zambia in their opening two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFF, Europe\u2019s football governing body UEFA and Chelsea have sent birthday wishes to former Nigeria international Victor Moses who turns 29 on Thursday. Celebrating Moses on their verified Twitter handle, the NFF recalled Moses\u2019 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winning feat with the Eagles. \u201cHappy birthday to #Afcon2013 winner, @VictorMoses,\u201d the NFF wrote. UEFA recollects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[468,174,115],"class_list":["post-18776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-afcon","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"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>NFF, UEFA, Chelsea Celebrate Ex-Eagles Star Moses At 29 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NFF, Europe\u2019s football governing body UEFA and Chelsea have sent birthday wishes to former Nigeria international Victor Moses who turns 29 on Thursday.\" \/>\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\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NFF, UEFA, Chelsea Celebrate Ex-Eagles Star Moses At 29\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NFF, Europe\u2019s football governing body UEFA and Chelsea have sent birthday wishes to former Nigeria international Victor Moses who turns 29 on Thursday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-12T16:40:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Victor-Moses.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"432\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"NFF, UEFA, Chelsea Celebrate Ex-Eagles Star Moses At 29\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-12T16:40:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29\"},\"wordCount\":158,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Victor-Moses.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON\",\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nff-uefa-chelsea-celebrate-ex-eagles-star-moses-at-29\",\"name\":\"NFF, UEFA, Chelsea Celebrate Ex-Eagles Star Moses At 29 - 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