rss-feed-widget domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/nff748/web.thenff.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114The Nigeria U-23 squad, nicknamed Dream Team, will contest the so-called Group of Death at the Men\u2019s Football Tournament of the 11th<\/sup> All-Africa Games in Brazzaville in September.<\/p>\n Thursday morning\u2019s Draw Show at CAF’s headquarters in Egypt pitted Samson Siasia\u2019s boys against Ghana\u2019s Black Meteors, Senegal\u2019s Lions and Egypt\u2019s Pharaohs in Group B of the tournament.<\/p>\n Host nation Congo has a somewhat easier challenge with Sudan, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso in Group A.<\/p>\n Siasia\u2019s wards, getting ready for an African U-23 Championship final round, first leg qualifier against Congo Brazzaville in Port Harcourt on July 19, must be at their best to overcome the Meteors, who won Africa\u2019s first Olympics football medal \u2013 bronze – at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The Meteors also have intense motivation – they have dropped out of the race for next year’s Olympics.<\/p>\n The Dream Team will open their campaign against Egypt, who will also face Nigeria in a quick-fire double over five days in March next year, in the race for places at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n THE DRAW<\/strong><\/p>\n GROUP A<\/p>\n Congo<\/p>\n Sudan<\/p>\n Zimbabwe<\/p>\n Burkina Faso<\/p>\n GROUP B<\/p>\n Ghana<\/p>\n Senegal<\/p>\n Egypt<\/p>\n Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nigeria U-23 squad, nicknamed Dream Team, will contest the so-called Group of Death at the Men\u2019s Football Tournament of the 11th All-Africa Games in Brazzaville in September. Thursday morning\u2019s Draw Show at CAF’s headquarters in Egypt pitted Samson Siasia\u2019s boys against Ghana\u2019s Black Meteors, Senegal\u2019s Lions and Egypt\u2019s Pharaohs in Group B of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[116,144],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympic-team","tag-featured","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}