{"id":20376,"date":"2011-03-06T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=20376"},"modified":"2011-03-06T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T05:48:07","slug":"nigerias-clash-with-ethiopia-switched-to-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=20376","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s clash with Ethiopia switched to Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Nigeria<\/strong><strong> will play Ethiopia in their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Abuja instead of Lagos on 26 March.<\/strong> <em>(Photo:\u00a0 Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nigerian Football Federation says the Group B game will be staged in the capital city against an earlier decision to have the game in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The players of the national team said they are averse to playing on the synthetic pitch of the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ethiopia tie will have a late kick-off time of 2000 GMT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month also, the team were booed at the Lagos stadium after Sierra Leone scored against the Eagles in a friendly, which ended 2-1 in favour of the home team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria are trailing group leaders Guinea by three points in their qualifying group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have three points after two matches, level with Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madagascar are the other team in this qualifying pool with only the eventual group winners guaranteed an automatic berth to next year&#8217;s Nations Cup to be jointly hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.<\/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>Nigeria will play Ethiopia in their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Abuja instead of Lagos on 26 March. (Photo:\u00a0 Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/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=20376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}