{"id":16999,"date":"2010-12-01T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=16999"},"modified":"2010-12-01T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T02:53:34","slug":"nigerians-back-siasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=16999","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian\u2019s back Siasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samson Siasia (in photo)\u00a0 who finally unveils by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in Abuja on Wednesday 1<sup>st<\/sup> December has said Nigerians are happy about his appointment and he is ready to fulfil his dream by taking Super Eagles to the height in his days when they were challenging with every footballing nation in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He called the country&#8217;s FA and other stakeholders to give him their backing as he needs time to achieve that aim. He also pointed out the Super Eagles will become a new team and it will take the support of everyone to build the dream but the team also needs time. \u00a0\u201cI promise to do everything humanly possible to make the Eagles fly again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Siasia 43, who had his proud parents in attendance at his public presentation competed with former Togo\u2019s ex-coach, Stephen Keshi, for the country\u2019s top coaching post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The popular coach guided Nigeria to the final of the 2005 FIFA Under-20 World Cup and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. His immediate task is to ensure Nigeria qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.<br \/>\nThe Eagles are three points behind group leader, Guinea, after two matches with only the eventual group winner guaranteed automatic qualification to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madagascar and Ethiopia are the other teams in their qualifying section.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NFF President, Aminu Maigari, said Siasia is a good choice to lead the country to many successes.<\/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>Samson Siasia (in photo)\u00a0 who finally unveils by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in Abuja on Wednesday 1st December has said Nigerians are happy about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[2370,5454,5770,3953],"class_list":["post-16999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-african-football","tag-nigerian-football","tag-samson-siasia","tag-super-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/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=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}