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Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle and his technical crew have arrived in Polokwane, South Africa, ahead of Nigeria’s crucial 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying clash with the Crocodiles of Lesotho scheduled for Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n The team’s backroom staff are also on ground, with the delegation lodged at the Ranch Hotel as preparations begin for the decisive encounter.<\/p>\n According to team officials, all 23 invited players are expected to join camp by today, flying directly from their respective clubs into South…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle and his technical crew have arrived in Polokwane, South Africa, ahead of Nigeria’s crucial 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying clash with the Crocodiles of Lesotho scheduled for Friday. The team’s backroom staff are also on ground, with the delegation lodged at the Ranch Hotel as preparations begin for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209182,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7019,6835,11657,5232,7775,8032,4717,1407,257,29443,52509,254,11577],"class_list":["post-209181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-camp","tag-crunch","tag-eagles","tag-encounter","tag-hit","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-nigerialesotho","tag-polokwane","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wcup"],"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\/209181","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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