{"id":183559,"date":"2024-10-30T00:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-afcon-qualifiers-super-eagles-opt-to-boycott-libya-tie\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T00:56:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:56:30","slug":"nigeria-libya-afcon-qualifiers-super-eagles-opt-to-boycott-libya-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-afcon-qualifiers-super-eagles-opt-to-boycott-libya-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Libya: Afcon Qualifiers &#8211; Super Eagles Opt to Boycott Libya Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>With players refusing to play under these conditions, NFF officials are considering flying the team back home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Nigeria national football team, the Super Eagles, have vowed to boycott Tuesday&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Libya&#8217;s Mediterranean Knights, citing inhumane and despicable treatment by their hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">According to a statement by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thenff.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria Football Federation<\/a><\/strong> (NFF), the team&#8217;s delegation remained stranded at Al Abraq Airport for 12 hours after landing in Libya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410140294.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>With players refusing to play under these conditions, NFF officials are considering flying the team back home. The Nigeria national football team, the Super Eagles, have vowed to boycott Tuesday&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Libya&#8217;s Mediterranean Knights, citing inhumane and despicable treatment by their hosts. According to a statement by the Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651743:3eaeae8234b68664757355f28a932c60:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[9488,258,256,8351,5232,4711,892,257,18235,10784,7318,254,9095,8465],"class_list":["post-183559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boycott","tag-eagles","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-nigerialibya","tag-opt","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-tie"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651743:3eaeae8234b68664757355f28a932c60:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183559","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=183559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}