{"id":398559,"date":"2011-04-26T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T08:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/26\/nigeria-ayc-musa-may-join-flying-eagles-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T08:33:54","slug":"nigeria-ayc-musa-may-join-flying-eagles-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/nigeria-ayc-musa-may-join-flying-eagles-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: AYC &#8211; Musa May Join Flying Eagles on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"37.5379426644\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentngonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Independent<\/a> (Lagos)<\/p>\n<p>25 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>There are indications that Dutch club VVV Venlo Ahmed Musa may join Flying Eagles on Tuesday if the club releases him for the semi-final match against Mali on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has requested for his release moments after Nigeria qualified for the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>A top NFA official informed MTNFootball.com that a letter was despatched to the Dutch club immediately the Flying Eagles booked a place in the last four of the AYC courtesy of a 2-0 win over Gambia in a final group tie.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official, the Dutch club is willing to allow him feature in the semi-final after the player personally made a request to them.<\/p>\n<p>If everything goes as hoped, Musa will arrive Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday before he would then fly back to his European base on Thursday only hours after the Mali clash.<\/p>\n<p>The former Kano Pillars star was the man of the match in Nigeria&#8217;s opening Group B match win over defending champions Ghana at the AYC.<\/p>\n<p>However, Musa had to fly back to Holland a day after helping Nigeria beat the Black Satelites so as to be part of his club&#8217;s home game against Heerenveen.<\/p>\n<p>VVV is battling for survival in the Dutch top flight and were at the weekend forced to a 2-2 draw by visiting Heerenveen as closest rivals for a promotion\/relegation playoff Willem II won at home to narrow the gap between the two teams to only three points with two matches still to be played.<\/p>\n<p>Next week Sunday, when the AYC final will be played, Musa&#8217;s club will host mid-table Feyenoord in continuation of the league, before they play their last game away at De Graafscahp two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Willem II will on Sunday be away to league leaders Twente, while their final fixture is at home to NAC Breda.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104260267.html\" title=\"Nigeria: AYC - Musa May Join Flying Eagles on Tuesday\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: AYC &#8211; Musa May Join Flying Eagles on Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Daily Independent (Lagos) 25 April 2011 There are indications that Dutch club VVV Venlo Ahmed Musa may join Flying Eagles on Tuesday if the club releases him for the semi-final match against Mali on Thursday. The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has requested for his release moments after Nigeria qualified for the semi-final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":398560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: AYC - Musa May Join Flying Eagles on Tuesday - 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\/04\/26\/nigeria-ayc-musa-may-join-flying-eagles-on-tuesday\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: AYC - Musa May Join Flying Eagles on Tuesday - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Daily Independent (Lagos) 25 April 2011 There are indications that Dutch club VVV Venlo Ahmed Musa may join Flying Eagles on Tuesday if the club releases him for the semi-final match against Mali on Thursday. 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