{"id":10775,"date":"2010-07-01T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=10775"},"modified":"2010-07-01T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:02:00","slug":"jonathan-took-popular-decision-super-eagles-banned-from-international-competitions-for-the-next-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=10775","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan took popular decision, Super Eagles banned from International competitions for the next 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Ibrahim Isa Bio (in photo) yesterday justified the Federal Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sweeping move to withdraw Nigeria from all international competitions for the next two years, to enable it reorganize the game for improved performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on Cable News Network (CNN), Bio, said President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Goodluck Jonathan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision was in tune with the wish of Nigerians, who have been served a mixed potpourri of failure and lost direction in continental and international competitions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has done is in tune with the wish of the sports-loving people of Nigerians, who no longer have hope in our national teams because of the dwindling fortunes when they compete in international competitions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The move to stay away from international football would allow us to reorganise our game and come back stronger in the nearest future. We would be better off with this decision\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, added Bio.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Ibrahim Isa Bio (in photo) yesterday justified the Federal Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sweeping move to withdraw Nigeria from all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[3906,2674],"class_list":["post-10775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-nigerian-soccer-team","tag-nigerian-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}