{"id":62647,"date":"2018-11-19T00:16:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62647"},"modified":"2018-11-19T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:17:07","slug":"nigeria-vs-uganda-super-eagles-suffer-major-injury-blow-ahead-of-friendly-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62647","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Uganda: Super Eagles suffer major injury blow ahead of friendly match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/leon-balogun_o9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles defender, Leon Balogun, will not feature in Nigeria\u2019s international friendly game with Uganda on Tuesday at the Asaba Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Brighton and Hove Albion star picked up a slight knock during Nigeria\u2019s 1-1 draw with South Africa on Saturday in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nation qualifying match.<\/p>\n<p>According to CSN, Balogun is expected to fly back to his club in England direct from Johannesburg for further checkups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter picking up a slight knock in yesterday\u2019s game, Leon Balogun has been excused from Tuesday\u2019s friendly against the Cranes of Uganda,\u201d a team official confirmed to CSN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll head straight to England from South Africa.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles defender, Leon Balogun, will not feature in Nigeria\u2019s international friendly game with Uganda on Tuesday at the Asaba Stadium. The Brighton and Hove Albion star picked up a slight knock during Nigeria\u2019s 1-1 draw with South Africa on Saturday in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nation qualifying match. According to CSN, Balogun is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16396,"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":[7960,4046],"class_list":["post-62647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-leon-balogun","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62647","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=62647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}