{"id":206538,"date":"2025-09-08T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/south-africa-nigeria-world-cup-qualifier-super-eagles-arrive-in-bloemfontein-ahead-of-crucial-clash-against-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:06:48","slug":"south-africa-nigeria-world-cup-qualifier-super-eagles-arrive-in-bloemfontein-ahead-of-crucial-clash-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/south-africa-nigeria-world-cup-qualifier-super-eagles-arrive-in-bloemfontein-ahead-of-crucial-clash-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\/Nigeria: World Cup Qualifier &#8211; Super Eagles Arrive in Bloemfontein Ahead of Crucial Clash Against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Super Eagles have landed in Bloemfontein, South Africa, ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s crucial 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Bafana Bafana, receiving a warm and colourful welcome from Nigerian officials and supporters at the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NGSuperEagles\">Super Eagles<\/a><\/strong> of Nigeria have touched down in Bloemfontein, South Africa, ahead of their crunch 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying clash against Bafana Bafana on Tuesday, 9 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Led by head coach Eric Chelle, the 22-man squad arrived on a chartered ValueJet&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509080113.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>The Super Eagles have landed in Bloemfontein, South Africa, ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s crucial 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Bafana Bafana, receiving a warm and colourful welcome from Nigerian officials and supporters at the airport. The Super Eagles of Nigeria have touched down in Bloemfontein, South Africa, ahead of their crunch 2026 FIFA World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206539,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,29283,7019,7399,18636,7647,7774,6674,5232,257,393,8496,5069,254,9095,5093],"class_list":["post-206538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africanigeria","tag-ahead","tag-arrive","tag-bloemfontein","tag-clash","tag-crucial","tag-cup","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-qualifier","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-world"],"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\/206538","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=206538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}