{"id":9277,"date":"2022-06-24T22:19:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2022-06-24T22:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:19:59","slug":"supersand-eagles-to-face-libya-as-nigeria-returns-to-beach-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9277","title":{"rendered":"Supersand Eagles To Face Libya As Nigeria Returns To Beach Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nigeria\u2019s Supersand Eagles are returning to life and consequently international competition with a fixture against Libya in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This followed the confirmation of their fixture by the Confederation of African Football.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Nigerian side would battle Libya in a two-leg playoff for a spot at this year\u2019s Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted by Mozambique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They are two-time African champions, having won the then African Beach Soccer Championship in 2007 and 2009, and were runners-up in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The team also reached the quarter-finals of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Italy in 2011, losing to Brazil after extra time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mozambique would host this year\u2019s Beach Soccer AFCON from October 21 to October 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The playoffs would have the first leg holding from July 22 to July 24 and the second leg holding from August 5 to 7, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All seven winners of the two-leg playoffs would join host Mozambique at the finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The two finalists in Mozambique would represent Africa at next year\u2019s FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup finals in the United Arab Emirates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Supersand Eagles are returning to life and consequently international competition with a fixture against Libya in July. This followed the confirmation of their fixture by the Confederation of African Football. The Nigerian side would battle Libya in a two-leg playoff for a spot at this year\u2019s Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5340,5339,92,5338],"class_list":["post-9277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-beach-soccer","tag-libya","tag-nigeria","tag-supersand-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}