{"id":216128,"date":"2025-12-09T02:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-afcon-2025-countdown-nff-confirms-new-date-for-super-eagles-egypt-friendly\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T02:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:21:50","slug":"egypt-nigeria-afcon-2025-countdown-nff-confirms-new-date-for-super-eagles-egypt-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-afcon-2025-countdown-nff-confirms-new-date-for-super-eagles-egypt-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Nigeria: Afcon 2025 Countdown &#8211; NFF Confirms New Date for Super Eagles-Egypt Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">This adjustment, the federation said, will help both technical crews test larger portions of their provisional squads before final selection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed a new date for the Super Eagles&#8217; pre-AFCON 2025 friendly against Egypt, following FIFA&#8217;s latest directive on player-release timelines ahead of next month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The highly anticipated warm-up match, earlier fixed for Sunday, 14 December in Cairo, will now hold on Tuesday, 16&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512080439.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>This adjustment, the federation said, will help both technical crews test larger portions of their provisional squads before final selection. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed a new date for the Super Eagles&#8217; pre-AFCON 2025 friendly against Egypt, following FIFA&#8217;s latest directive on player-release timelines ahead of next month&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":216129,"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":[9488,258,256,6824,27229,6144,53079,415,17201,7596,257,8073,254,9095],"class_list":["post-216128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confirms","tag-countdown","tag-date","tag-eaglesegypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptnigeria","tag-friendly","tag-news","tag-nff","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super"],"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\/216128","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=216128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}