{"id":217141,"date":"2025-12-18T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-egypts-pharaohs-edge-super-eagles-2-1-in-cairo-friendly\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:46:16","slug":"egypt-nigeria-egypts-pharaohs-edge-super-eagles-2-1-in-cairo-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-nigeria-egypts-pharaohs-edge-super-eagles-2-1-in-cairo-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Nigeria: Egypt&#8217;s Pharaohs Edge Super Eagles 2-1 in Cairo Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">*Chelle and his wards to depart for Morocco on Thursday<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Seven-time African champions, Pharaohs of Egypt, won a moral boosting international friendly 2-1 with Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles in Cairo last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Though a test match, in the absence of Nigeria&#8217;s talisman, Victor Osimhen, the Super Eagles maintained balance and dominated ball possession in the first quarter house. It however didn&#8217;t take long for the Pharaohs to register their opening goal through Mahmoud Saber in the 28th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180443.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>*Chelle and his wards to depart for Morocco on Thursday Seven-time African champions, Pharaohs of Egypt, won a moral boosting international friendly 2-1 with Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles in Cairo last night. Though a test match, in the absence of Nigeria&#8217;s talisman, Victor Osimhen, the Super Eagles maintained balance and dominated ball possession in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217142,"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":[258,256,341,5232,7126,415,17201,6989,7596,257,12628,254,9095],"class_list":["post-217141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-eagles","tag-edge","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptnigeria","tag-egypts","tag-friendly","tag-news","tag-pharaohs","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\/217141","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=217141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}