{"id":196494,"date":"2025-04-21T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-u20-afcon-flying-eagles-arrive-in-cairo-to-play-young-pharaohs-in-friendly-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:12:52","slug":"nigeria-egypt-u20-afcon-flying-eagles-arrive-in-cairo-to-play-young-pharaohs-in-friendly-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-u20-afcon-flying-eagles-arrive-in-cairo-to-play-young-pharaohs-in-friendly-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Egypt: U20 Afcon &#8211; Flying Eagles Arrive in Cairo, to Play Young Pharaohs in Friendly On Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A delegation of 24 players and nine officials led by Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu touched down at the Cairo International Airport aboard an Egypt Air flight on Sunday evening<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nigeria&#8217;s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, have arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo as the seven-time African champions get set for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-u-20-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17th Africa U20 Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong> finals starting in the North African country on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A delegation of 24 players and nine officials led by Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu touched down at the Cairo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504210324.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of 24 players and nine officials led by Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu touched down at the Cairo International Airport aboard an Egypt Air flight on Sunday evening Nigeria&#8217;s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, have arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo as the seven-time African champions get set for the 17th Africa U20 Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,7399,341,5232,415,9805,7596,257,12244,12628,7543,254,7871,8350,7720],"class_list":["post-196494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrive","tag-cairo","tag-eagles","tag-egypt-news","tag-flying","tag-friendly","tag-news","tag-nigeriaegypt","tag-pharaohs","tag-play","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tuesday","tag-u20","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196494","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=196494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}