{"id":133755,"date":"2019-07-08T09:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T08:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133755"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:24:55","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-rohr-gets-major-boost-as-mikel-obi-returns-to-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133755","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: Rohr gets major boost as Mikel Obi returns to training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nigeria-vs-South-Africa-Rohr-gets-major-boost-as-Mikel-Obi-returns-to-training.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has been handed a selection boost ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against South Africa, as captain John Obi Mikel resumed training today.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder took part in a light training during the team\u2019s recovery session on Sunday morning, seven days after he limped out of Nigeria\u2019s 2-0 defeat to Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>It leaves Rohr positive about his chances of playing against Bafana Bafana on Wednesday, July 10.<\/p>\n<p>The German had given a hint about Mikel Obi\u2019s fitness, after the 3-2 win over Cameroon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMikel is trying to run already, so we will see if he could be fit one time for [South Africa] clash,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has been handed a selection boost ahead of their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against South Africa, as captain John Obi Mikel resumed training today. The midfielder took part in a light training during the team\u2019s recovery session on Sunday morning, seven days after he limped out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}