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Nigeria head coach Eric Chelle on Monday called on his players to better the exploits of the team that surged to the Cup of Nations final nearly two years ago in Cote d’Ivoire. <\/em><\/p>\n Under the then boss Jos\u00e9 Peseiro, Nigeria overpowered Cameroon in the last-16, edged past Angola in the quarter-final and rode their luck against South Africa to claim a penalty shootout in the semi-final. Hosts Cote d’Ivoire undid them in the final.<\/a><\/p>\n “At the last Cup of Nations, Nigeria set a standard,” said Chelle on…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nigeria head coach Eric Chelle on Monday called on his players to better the exploits of the team that surged to the Cup of Nations final nearly two years ago in Cote d’Ivoire. Under the then boss Jos\u00e9 Peseiro, Nigeria overpowered Cameroon in the last-16, edged past Angola in the quarter-final and rode their luck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217835,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6962,50394,5958,6183,6555,6674,5959,46316,1218,4301,257,4687,18942,53206,254,8984,6810],"class_list":["post-217834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boss","tag-chelle","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cup","tag-divoire","tag-feats","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeriacote","tag-outdo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-urges"],"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\/217834","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=217834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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