{"id":183532,"date":"2024-10-29T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-libyan-fa-punished-for-hold-up-of-nigeria-squad-before-cup-of-nations-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T10:55:56","slug":"nigeria-libya-libyan-fa-punished-for-hold-up-of-nigeria-squad-before-cup-of-nations-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-libyan-fa-punished-for-hold-up-of-nigeria-squad-before-cup-of-nations-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Libya: Libyan FA Punished for Hold-Up of Nigeria Squad Before Cup of Nations Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\"><em> Nigeria will require a point from their last two matches next month to advance to the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after continental football chiefs awarded them a 3-0 victory over Libya and fined the Libyan federation \u20ac46,000 for shambolic organisation in the prelude to a qualifier between the sides on 15 October. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The 2023 Cup of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/sports\/20240212-cote-d-ivoire-neutralise-nigeria-to-claim-third-africa-cup-of-nations-trophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nations runners-up<\/a> were due to land at Benghazi airport for the Group D encounter in the city but the pilot of their aircraft was instead told to head for Al Abraq&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410290024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria will require a point from their last two matches next month to advance to the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after continental football chiefs awarded them a 3-0 victory over Libya and fined the Libyan federation \u20ac46,000 for shambolic organisation in the prelude to a qualifier between the sides on 15 October. The 2023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430761:6a82f8a74b681158d55f93554a43b42e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,6674,49849,892,6718,4301,257,4687,18235,24790,8496,254,8984],"class_list":["post-183532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-holdup","tag-libya-news","tag-libyan","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerialibya","tag-punished","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430761:6a82f8a74b681158d55f93554a43b42e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}