{"id":65407,"date":"2022-05-25T16:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies"},"modified":"2022-05-25T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:38:55","slug":"bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies","title":{"rendered":"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Nigeria has handed late call-ups to the trio of Innocent Bonke, Terem Moffi and Adebayo Adeleye ahead of the friendlies against Mexico and Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>The trio take the place of Emmanuel Dennis, Sadiq Umar and Maduka Okoye in the 30-man list.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis and Okoye are both injured and have communicated their decision to pull out of the games to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).<\/p>\n<p>Dennis, who was Watford\u2019s top scorer in the 2021\/22 season with 10 goals, missed the club\u2019s last four games of the campaign as a result of injury.<\/p>\n<p>Okoye is also nursing an injury which prompted his withdrawal from the friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>His replacement, Adeleye will compete with two other goalkeepers; Enyimba\u2019s Ojo Olorunleke and Adewale Adeyinka of Akwa United for the starting spot.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq opted out of the games due to club engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Moffi and Bonke, both fringe players in the Super Eagles have another chance to prove their mettle in the team, especially with the coming of a new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The first friendly against Mexico is billed for the AT&amp;T Stadium, Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time African champions will also keep a date with Ecuador at the Red Bull Arena, Harrison on June 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Nigeria has handed late call-ups to the trio of Innocent Bonke, Terem Moffi and Adebayo Adeleye ahead of the friendlies against Mexico and Ecuador. The trio take the place of Emmanuel Dennis, Sadiq Umar and Maduka Okoye in the 30-man list. Dennis and Okoye are both injured and have communicated their decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":65406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[7548,1570,2140,7546,7547,254,453],"class_list":["post-65407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-adeleye","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-bonke","tag-moffi","tag-nigeria","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>Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies - 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\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Nigeria has handed late call-ups to the trio of Innocent Bonke, Terem Moffi and Adebayo Adeleye ahead of the friendlies against Mexico and Ecuador. The trio take the place of Emmanuel Dennis, Sadiq Umar and Maduka Okoye in the 30-man list. Dennis and Okoye are both injured and have communicated their decision [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-25T15:38:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-25T15:38:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adeleye\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Bonke\",\"Moffi\",\"Nigeria\",\"super eagles\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies\",\"name\":\"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-25T15:38:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies - Nigeria","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies","og_description":"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Nigeria has handed late call-ups to the trio of Innocent Bonke, Terem Moffi and Adebayo Adeleye ahead of the friendlies against Mexico and Ecuador. The trio take the place of Emmanuel Dennis, Sadiq Umar and Maduka Okoye in the 30-man list. Dennis and Okoye are both injured and have communicated their decision [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2022-05-25T15:38:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies","datePublished":"2022-05-25T15:38:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies"},"wordCount":222,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg","keywords":["Adeleye","Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Bonke","Moffi","Nigeria","super eagles"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies","name":"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-25T15:38:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_3-628e5d7e0310c.jpg","width":1200,"height":720,"caption":"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bonke-moffi-adeleye-get-late-invitations-for-super-eagles-friendlies#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bonke, Moffi, Adeleye get late invitations for Super Eagles friendlies"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}