{"id":209367,"date":"2025-10-09T19:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/nigeria-lesotho-18-super-eagles-begin-training-in-polokwane-for-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:44:25","slug":"nigeria-lesotho-18-super-eagles-begin-training-in-polokwane-for-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/nigeria-lesotho-18-super-eagles-begin-training-in-polokwane-for-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Lesotho: 18 Super Eagles Begin Training in Polokwane for Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">*Bundesliga&#8217;s Werder Bremen confirm Felix Agu sidelined by ligament injury<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Eighteen Super Eagles players opened their training in Polokwane, South Africa on Tuesday evening ahead Friday&#8217;s 2026 World Cup qualifying clash with Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Dender EH of Belgium central defender, Benjamin Fredrick was the last player to join the team as all 18 Super Eagles began their first training regime under the watch of Eric Chelle and his technical crew in the South African city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510090293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Bundesliga&#8217;s Werder Bremen confirm Felix Agu sidelined by ligament injury Eighteen Super Eagles players opened their training in Polokwane, South Africa on Tuesday evening ahead Friday&#8217;s 2026 World Cup qualifying clash with Lesotho. Dender EH of Belgium central defender, Benjamin Fredrick was the last player to join the team as all 18 Super Eagles began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209368,"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":[258,256,5232,4717,1407,257,29443,52509,254,9095,4287],"class_list":["post-209367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eagles","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-nigerialesotho","tag-polokwane","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-training"],"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\/209367","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=209367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}