{"id":63367,"date":"2018-11-21T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63367"},"modified":"2018-11-21T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:37:28","slug":"nigeria-vs-uganda-how-nff-president-pinnick-reacted-to-super-eagles-0-0-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63367","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Uganda: How NFF president, Pinnick reacted to Super Eagles\u2019 0-0 draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Nigeria-vs-Uganda-How-NFF-president-Pinnick-reacted-to-Super-Eagles\u2019-0-0-draw.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Amaju Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has spoken up on Super Eagles\u2019 0-0 draw with Uganda in an international friendly game played on Tuesday evening at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba.<\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr fielded a strong side, with Alex Iwobi, Ahmed Musa and Oghenekaro Etebo all starting against the Cranes.<\/p>\n<p>However, they failed to find the net, in what was generally a scrappy match.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Pinnick pointed out that the visitors are one of the rising forces of African football, adding that they defeated Nigeria the last time both teams clashed in a friendly match on March 25, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey showed strength in the game, mental capacity, good football artistry, so we are very proud of what we saw yesterday,\u201d Pinnick told Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe last time Uganda came to Nigeria they defeated us, this is one of the strongest teams in Africa, I \u2018m telling you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis is a team that defeated Egypt, they were on the verge of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup, it\u2019s a reborn Cranes of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s not a competitive game, we need to understand friendly games are meant to look at the strength and weakness of your players, especially the new players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dFor me they did very well, I am very convinced and happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will tackle Seychelles in March next year in their last AFCON qualifying fixture\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amaju Pinnick, the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has spoken up on Super Eagles\u2019 0-0 draw with Uganda in an international friendly game played on Tuesday evening at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba. Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr fielded a strong side, with Alex Iwobi, Ahmed Musa and Oghenekaro Etebo all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62463,"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":[8038,4046],"class_list":["post-63367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigeria-vs-uganda","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63367","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=63367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}