{"id":233504,"date":"2026-05-17T04:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nigeria-zimbabwe-unveil-squad-for-super-eagles-ahead-clash-in-london\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:32:58","slug":"zimbabwe-nigeria-zimbabwe-unveil-squad-for-super-eagles-ahead-clash-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nigeria-zimbabwe-unveil-squad-for-super-eagles-ahead-clash-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Nigeria: Zimbabwe Unveil Squad for Super Eagles Ahead Clash in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">After pulling two draws with Nigeria in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers that were part of the reasons Super Eagles failed to qualify for the Mundial, Zimbabwe have named a formidable Warriors squad for their Unity Cup semi-final clash against the three-time African champions in London later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Super Eagles are the defending champions of the Unity Cup tournament, scheduled to run from May 26 to 30, featuring Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, and India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Yesterday, the Zimbabwe Football&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After pulling two draws with Nigeria in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers that were part of the reasons Super Eagles failed to qualify for the Mundial, Zimbabwe have named a formidable Warriors squad for their Unity Cup semi-final clash against the three-time African champions in London later this month. The Super Eagles are the defending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7019,7647,5232,3426,257,254,8984,9095,15437,4686,421,47096],"class_list":["post-233504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-clash","tag-eagles","tag-london","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-super","tag-unveil","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwenigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233504","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}