{"id":136996,"date":"2019-07-20T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136996"},"modified":"2019-07-20T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T08:41:11","slug":"afcon-2019-super-eagles-goalkeeper-akpeyi-speaks-on-using-juju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136996","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Super Eagles goalkeeper, Akpeyi speaks on using &#8216;juju&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Algeria-vs-Nigeria-Daniel-Akpeyi-speaks-on-failing-to-stop-Riyad-Mahrezs-free-kick.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles goalkeeper, Daniel Akpeyi, has rubbished claims that he rubbed the ball used for their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match against South Africa with fetish substances.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumours on social media, that the Kaizer Chiefs\u2019 stopper used \u2018juju\u2019 for the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>However, in an interview with Soccer Laduma, Akpeyi, who manned the post for four of Nigeria\u2019s games at the AFCON, said: \u201cPeople really believe I put juju on the match ball? That doesn\u2019t make sense. Does juju really work in football?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, that (juju) is nonsense because if juju really worked in football, Africa would be world champions. Most of the times in Africa; they like using juju and all of that stuff. They should be winning the championship now and then. It doesn\u2019t work. Now, getting back to the match ball against South Africa, it happens all over Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a goalkeeper is using a new set of gloves, you want to get a feel of the ball. If they (gloves) grip very well, the better. But sometimes they water the pitch and the ball can skid and be slippery, so you want to feel the level of the grip of the gloves on the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Christian and, so, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll get myself involved in juju and even if you use it in my presence, it doesn\u2019t work, otherwise like I said before, all those teams that use juju, they could be scoring 10 or 15 goals in a single match and winning all games. I have seen teams using juju and they never get anywhere. It doesn\u2019t work, so never assume that it is juju whatsoever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria finished in third place at the tournament.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles goalkeeper, Daniel Akpeyi, has rubbished claims that he rubbed the ball used for their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match against South Africa with fetish substances. There have been rumours on social media, that the Kaizer Chiefs\u2019 stopper used \u2018juju\u2019 for the encounter. However, in an interview with Soccer Laduma, Akpeyi, who manned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135897,"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-136996","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\/136996","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=136996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}