{"id":354273,"date":"2011-03-31T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/nigeria-ike-uche-banishes-nightmare-with-goals\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:56:08","slug":"nigeria-ike-uche-banishes-nightmare-with-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/nigeria-ike-uche-banishes-nightmare-with-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ike Uche Banishes Nightmare With Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"57.73428264374\">\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>31 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Real Zaragoza striker Ikechukwu Uche has put behind him an injury nightmare that sidelined him over 18 months with yet another goal for Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles in a friendly at the Abuja National Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Uche, who suffered two long-term knee injuries that prevented him from featuring at last year&#8217;s World Cup, scored in stoppage time to give Nigeria a 3-0 win over their Kenyan counterparts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, he came off the substitute bench to hit a brace as Nigeria trounced Ethiopia 4-0 in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, also at the Abuja National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to be playing football again after being out for a very long time,&#8221; said Uche after Tuesday&#8217;s friendly against the Harambee Stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if I was not scoring and the team is winning, I would still have been very happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uche was joint top scorer for Nigeria with four goals during the combined qualifying tournament for the 2010 World Cup and Nations Cup before a knee injury kept him out of both competitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His comeback was then cut short by yet another knee injury and he only returned to action with his Spanish club last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy for Uche because I know what it means to be out for long because of injury because I also suffered such fate,&#8221; said Everton striker Victor Anichebe, who got Nigeria&#8217;s second goal against Kenya just three minutes after the interval.<\/p>\n<p>Anichebe&#8217;s goal was master-class. He controlled the ball with his chest with a Kenyan defender shadowing him, before he turned around to fire home a powerful left shot.<\/p>\n<p>VVV Venlo forward Ahmed Musa opened scoring for the Eagles after just three minutes when he reached the end of a through ball by Anichebe to slot home. It was his first goal at full international level.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s best moment was on the half hour when skipper McDonald Mariga from Inter Milan pounced on a pass from the left to whip a powerful shot which Dele Aiyenugba in goal for Nigeria some how scrambled away.<\/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<p><a name=\"c|main|main|id|0C_AvNFBozfkY5bd\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103311011.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Ike Uche Banishes Nightmare With Goals\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Ike Uche Banishes Nightmare With Goals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 31 March 2011 Real Zaragoza striker Ikechukwu Uche has put behind him an injury nightmare that sidelined him over 18 months with yet another goal for Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles in a friendly at the Abuja National Stadium on Tuesday. Uche, who suffered two long-term knee injuries that prevented him from featuring at last year&#8217;s World Cup, scored in stoppage time to give Nigeria a 3-0 win over their Kenyan counterparts. <\/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-354273","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: Ike Uche Banishes Nightmare With Goals - 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\/31\/nigeria-ike-uche-banishes-nightmare-with-goals\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Ike Uche Banishes Nightmare With Goals - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"31 March 2011 Real Zaragoza striker Ikechukwu Uche has put behind him an injury nightmare that sidelined him over 18 months with yet another goal for Nigeria&#039;s Super Eagles in a friendly at the Abuja National Stadium on Tuesday. 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