{"id":196623,"date":"2025-04-23T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-flying-eagles-in-cairo-to-play-young-pharaohs-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:16:44","slug":"nigeria-egypt-flying-eagles-in-cairo-to-play-young-pharaohs-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-flying-eagles-in-cairo-to-play-young-pharaohs-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Egypt: Flying Eagles in Cairo to Play Young Pharaohs Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nigeria&#8217;s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, will square up to host nation, the Young Pharaohs of Egypt this evening as part of their build-up to the Africa U20 Cup of Nations billed to take place 27th April and 18th May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">A delegation of 24 players and nine officials led by Head Coach, Aliyu Zubairu touched down at the Cairo International Airport aboard Egypt Air flight on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The team is lodged at Jewel Sports City and Aqua Resort, and had their first training session on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504230392.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>Nigeria&#8217;s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, will square up to host nation, the Young Pharaohs of Egypt this evening as part of their build-up to the Africa U20 Cup of Nations billed to take place 27th April and 18th May. A delegation of 24 players and nine officials led by Head Coach, Aliyu Zubairu touched down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196624,"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":[258,256,341,5232,415,9805,257,12244,12628,7543,254,6637,7720],"class_list":["post-196623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-eagles","tag-egypt-news","tag-flying","tag-news","tag-nigeriaegypt","tag-pharaohs","tag-play","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","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\/196623","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=196623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}