{"id":220919,"date":"2026-01-18T23:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-how-super-eagles-won-afcon-bronze-eric-chelle\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:07:28","slug":"nigeria-egypt-how-super-eagles-won-afcon-bronze-eric-chelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-how-super-eagles-won-afcon-bronze-eric-chelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Egypt: How Super Eagles Won Afcon Bronze &#8211; Eric Chelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>According to Chelle, Saturday&#8217;s victory should be seen as part of a bigger picture rather than a one-off success<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Super Eagles coach \u00c9ric Chelle has praised his players&#8217; strength of character and unity after Nigeria bounced back from a semi-final heartbreak to claim the bronze medal at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Nigeria defeated Egypt 4-2 on penalties in Saturday&#8217;s third-place play-off at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca, following a goalless draw in regulation time. The win&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601180052.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>According to Chelle, Saturday&#8217;s victory should be seen as part of a bigger picture rather than a one-off success Super Eagles coach \u00c9ric Chelle has praised his players&#8217; strength of character and unity after Nigeria bounced back from a semi-final heartbreak to claim the bronze medal at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680487:28cb224285b82b326154b2d6910cf5af:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,6632,50394,5232,415,13269,257,12244,254,9095,19727],"class_list":["post-220919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bronze","tag-chelle","tag-eagles","tag-egypt-news","tag-eric","tag-news","tag-nigeriaegypt","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-won"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680487:28cb224285b82b326154b2d6910cf5af:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220919","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=220919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}