{"id":184195,"date":"2024-11-08T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-11-years-and-counting-nigerias-u-17-world-cup-heroes-still-await-reward\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:31:16","slug":"nigeria-11-years-and-counting-nigerias-u-17-world-cup-heroes-still-await-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-11-years-and-counting-nigerias-u-17-world-cup-heroes-still-await-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 11 Years and Counting &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s U-17 World Cup Heroes Still Await Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">During a reception at the Government House in Calabar, Mr Imoke had promised houses to 21 players and ten team officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Friday, November 8, 2024, marks the 11th anniversary of Nigeria&#8217;s Golden Eaglets&#8217; triumph in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The team, led by Coach Manu Garba, defeated Mexico 3-0 in the final, securing Nigeria&#8217;s fourth title in the cadet category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">However, despite this impressive achievement, a promise made to the team by the then-Governor of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossriverstate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cross River State<\/a><\/strong>, Liyel Imoke,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080177.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a reception at the Government House in Calabar, Mr Imoke had promised houses to 21 players and ten team officials. Friday, November 8, 2024, marks the 11th anniversary of Nigeria&#8217;s Golden Eaglets&#8217; triumph in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup. The team, led by Coach Manu Garba, defeated Mexico 3-0 in the final, securing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,22443,9329,6674,9171,257,4687,393,5761,13076,254,9489,5093,5114],"class_list":["post-184195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-await","tag-counting","tag-cup","tag-heroes","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-reward","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u17","tag-world","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184195","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}