{"id":329820,"date":"2011-03-22T14:41:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/22\/nigeria-siasia-releases-ehiosun-to-eguavoen\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:41:29","slug":"nigeria-siasia-releases-ehiosun-to-eguavoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/nigeria-siasia-releases-ehiosun-to-eguavoen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Siasia Releases Ehiosun to Eguavoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.7240418118\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.champion.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6086cdc7champion180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Champion (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Daily Champion (Lagos)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>22 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has released striker Ekigho Ehiosun, who is enmeshed in a row with his agent, to lead Nigeria&#8217;s attack in an Olympic qualifier against Equatorial Guinea this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Warri Wolves striker, who made a sensational goal-scoring Eagles debut against Sierra Leone last month, is entangled in a spat with his London-based agent after he stayed away from trials in Norway recently.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>The player&#8217;s agent has threatened not to surrender the player&#8217;s passport until he receives two million naira (about $13,000) to offset his investment.<\/p>\n<p>Were he to carry out his threat, Ehiosun will be ruled out of even featuring for the Olympic team in Saturday&#8217;s qualifier in Benin City.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has since waded into the drama.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Ehiosun and AC Milan left winger Nnamdi Oduamadi were let go by Siasia for the country&#8217;s Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>This followed the release of Parma midfielder Obiora Nwankwo earlier last week by Siasia to the Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>Officials disclosed that squad changes opened the door for Wigan Athletic right winger Victor Moses to be handed a late call-up by the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103220969.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Siasia Releases Ehiosun to Eguavoen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Siasia Releases Ehiosun to Eguavoen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 22 March 2011 Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has released striker Ekigho Ehiosun, who is enmeshed in a row with his agent, to lead Nigeria&#8217;s attack in an Olympic qualifier against Equatorial Guinea this weekend. The Warri Wolves striker, who made a sensational goal-scoring Eagles debut against Sierra Leone last month, is entangled in a spat with his London-based agent after he stayed away from trials in Norway recently. The player&#8217;s agent has threatened not to surrender the player&#8217;s passport until he receives two million naira (about $13,000) to offset his investment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Siasia Releases Ehiosun to Eguavoen - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/nigeria-siasia-releases-ehiosun-to-eguavoen\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Siasia Releases Ehiosun to Eguavoen - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"22 March 2011 Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has released striker Ekigho Ehiosun, who is enmeshed in a row with his agent, to lead Nigeria&#039;s attack in an Olympic qualifier against Equatorial Guinea this weekend. 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