{"id":148740,"date":"2015-09-03T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=148740"},"modified":"2015-09-03T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:10:28","slug":"vincent-enyeama-keeper-out-of-nigeria-squad-after-bereavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=148740","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Enyeama: Keeper out of Nigeria squad after losing mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has pulled out of Saturday&#8217;s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tie against Tanzania following the death of his mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He is completely devastated and coach Sunday Oliseh has excused him on compassionate grounds,&#8221; a source close to the family told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enyeama was due to fly to Abuja on Monday but cancelled the trip. Uncapped Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme is set to step into the starting line-up for the Group G qualifier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enyeama, who plays for French club Lille and is the Super Eagles most capped player with 101 appearances, was in goal for Nigeria when they beat Chad 2-0 in their opener in Kaduna in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt, who have missed the last three continental finals, beat Tanzania 3-0 in Alexandria to top the group on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though they are among the best-known sides on the continent, neither Nigeria nor seven-time champions Egypt qualified for the Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that the Super Eagles face the Mena of Niger Republic in an international friendly on 8 September in Port Harcourt.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Credit: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has pulled out of Saturday&#8217;s 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tie against Tanzania following the death of his mother. &#8220;He is completely devastated and coach Sunday Oliseh has excused him on compassionate grounds,&#8221; a source close to the family told BBC Sport. Enyeama was due to fly to Abuja on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":148742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-148740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}