{"id":150078,"date":"2019-09-07T10:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150078"},"modified":"2019-09-07T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:25:12","slug":"ukraine-vs-nigeria-why-ahmed-musa-will-not-play-for-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150078","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine vs Nigeria: Why Ahmed Musa will not play for Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rohr-unhappy-with-Ahmed-Musas-decision-to-leave-Europe.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, will be without captain Ahmed Musa, for Tuesday\u2019s international friendly against Ukraine, according to Sporting Life.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Nassr winger has pulled out of the game with injury, that has failed to heal as quickly as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Musa joins defenders Kenneth Omeruo, Tyronne Ebuehi, midfielder Wilfred Ndidi and forward Henry Onyekuru, on the list of absentees.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2013based defender William Ekong is now expected to lead the team for the match.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first outing for the three-time African champions, since they finished third at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, will be without captain Ahmed Musa, for Tuesday\u2019s international friendly against Ukraine, according to Sporting Life. The Al-Nassr winger has pulled out of the game with injury, that has failed to heal as quickly as expected. Musa joins defenders Kenneth Omeruo, Tyronne Ebuehi, midfielder Wilfred Ndidi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140663,"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":[5714,7480,4046],"class_list":["post-150078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ahmad-musa","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150078","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=150078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}