{"id":21195,"date":"2011-03-21T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=21195"},"modified":"2011-03-21T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:00:13","slug":"victor-moses-gets-late-nigeria-call-to-face-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=21195","title":{"rendered":"Victor Moses gets late Nigeria call to face Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Wigan winger Victor Moses has been handed a late invitation by Nigeria for Sunday&#8217;s 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 20-year-old, who was born in the West African country, is heading for Abuja to be involved in his first game for the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moses represented England at U-17, U-19 and U-21 levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He therefore needs approval from Fifa before his international switch can be finalised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have called up Moses for this weekend&#8217;s match against Ethiopia after we made a couple of changes in the squad,&#8221; said Nigeria assistant coach Simon Kalika.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Moses was on our standby list and after we released two of our call-ups to the Olympic team who will also be in action this weekend, we decided to invite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moses&#8217; agent, Tony Finnigan, disclosed that the Wigan ace will join the rest of the Nigeria squad along with West Ham striker Victor Obinna on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The player was picked for last month&#8217;s friendly against Sierra Leone but stayed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria coach Samson Siasia visited Moses in England in December and received assurances he was keen to play for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, goalkeeper Victor Enyeama has been ruled out of the game because of an ankle injury.<\/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>Wigan winger Victor Moses has been handed a late invitation by Nigeria for Sunday&#8217;s 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia. The 20-year-old, who [&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":[2135,2370,7533],"class_list":["post-21195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-african-football","tag-victor-moses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195","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=21195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21195\/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=21195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}