{"id":9882,"date":"2018-06-15T15:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9882"},"modified":"2018-06-15T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:47:08","slug":"super-eagles-are-the-youngest-team-at-this-tournament-photos","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/super-eagles-are-the-youngest-team-at-this-tournament-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles are the youngest team at 2018 World Cup (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles take a short walk around their hotel in Kaliningrad. They will train later today at the new Kaliningrad Stadium, where they take on Croatia tomorrow in a World Cup Group D clash. Kick-off is 8pm in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles are the youngest team at this tournament, and have 18 players who could be taking part in a FIFA World Cup match for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Only skipper John Obi Mikel, Ahmed Musa, Victor Moses, Ogenyi Onazi and Kenneth Omeruo have previously played in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the debutants, William Troost-Ekong, is relishing the chance for them to prove themselves on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us will be playing at the World Cup for the first time, but this may work in our favour, as we may be underrated and so might surprise some teams. We will play without fear,\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"dcm-title\">Did you know?<\/h3>\n<p>Every time Nigeria have faced European opposition in their opening FIFA World Cup match, they have emerged victorious. Most recently, a thumping goal from Sunday Oliseh gave them a famous first-up victory over Spain at France 1998.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9884\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dnkduyciptyoxikrmy1q.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dnkduyciptyoxikrmy1q.jpg 800w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dnkduyciptyoxikrmy1q-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dnkduyciptyoxikrmy1q-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dnkduyciptyoxikrmy1q-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dnkduyciptyoxikrmy1q-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/dnkduyciptyoxikrmy1q-969x545.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles take a short walk around their hotel in Kaliningrad. They will train later today at the new Kaliningrad Stadium, where they take on Croatia tomorrow in a World Cup Group D clash. Kick-off is 8pm in Nigeria. The Super Eagles are the youngest team at this tournament, and have 18 players who could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[321,323],"class_list":["post-9882","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","news-category-top-news","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Super Eagles are the youngest team at 2018 World Cup (Photos)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Super Eagles are the youngest team at 2018 World Cup (Photos)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/super-eagles-are-the-youngest-team-at-this-tournament-photos\/\" \/>\n<meta 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