{"id":194263,"date":"2025-03-22T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-rwanda-rwanda-vs-nigeria-preview-super-eagles-seek-to-revive-world-cup-hopes-in-kigali\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:00:19","slug":"nigeria-rwanda-rwanda-vs-nigeria-preview-super-eagles-seek-to-revive-world-cup-hopes-in-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-rwanda-rwanda-vs-nigeria-preview-super-eagles-seek-to-revive-world-cup-hopes-in-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Rwanda: Rwanda Vs Nigeria Preview &#8211; Super Eagles Seek to Revive World Cup Hopes in Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nigeria&#8217;s qualification campaign has been far from ideal, with the three-time African champions yet to register a win in four matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">As the 2026 FIFA World Cup race intensifies, Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles will look to reignite their qualification hopes when they face Rwanda at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Eric Chelle&#8217;s men, currently languishing second from bottom in Group C, must secure a positive result to stay in contention for a place at next year&#8217;s global showpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Rwanda will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210337.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>Nigeria&#8217;s qualification campaign has been far from ideal, with the three-time African champions yet to register a win in four matches. As the 2026 FIFA World Cup race intensifies, Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles will look to reignite their qualification hopes when they face Rwanda at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali on Friday. Eric Chelle&#8217;s men, currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650722:de3915817ab9c7e43f6b60fa1cc6fe00:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6674,5232,10002,5441,257,4687,393,49946,33081,9299,4702,7745,254,9095,5093],"class_list":["post-194263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-eagles","tag-hopes","tag-kigali","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigeriarwanda","tag-preview","tag-revive","tag-rwanda","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650722:de3915817ab9c7e43f6b60fa1cc6fe00:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194263","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=194263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}