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The Super Eagles of Nigeria duo of Victor Osimhen and Stanley Nwabali are the notable absentees as Nigeria invites 23 players for the upcoming friendly matches with Iran and Jordan.<\/em><\/p>\n Osimhen has been on form for Galatasaray in the league and UEFA Champions League, but no reason was given for his absence, while Nwabali is without a club since leaving Chippa United.<\/p>\n Despite the absence of the duo, coach Eric Chelle has called up replacements Paul Onuachu in attack, and goalkeeper Maduka Okoye who…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Super Eagles of Nigeria duo of Victor Osimhen and Stanley Nwabali are the notable absentees as Nigeria invites 23 players for the upcoming friendly matches with Iran and Jordan. Osimhen has been on form for Galatasaray in the league and UEFA Champions League, but no reason was given for his absence, while Nwabali is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227296,"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":[249],"tags":[53940,258,256,50394,7596,10116,257,4687,393,53939,12178,9444,254,6966],"class_list":["post-227295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-4nation","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chelle","tag-friendly","tag-invites","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nwabali","tag-okoye","tag-players","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tournament"],"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\/227295","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=227295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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