{"id":427265,"date":"2011-05-20T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/20\/nigeria-former-gombe-chairman-wants-eagles-team-b-against-argentina\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:58:48","slug":"nigeria-former-gombe-chairman-wants-eagles-team-b-against-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/nigeria-former-gombe-chairman-wants-eagles-team-b-against-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Former Gombe Chairman Wants Eagles Team B Against Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"15.592879257\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailytrust180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Trust (Abuja)\" title=\"Visit Daily Trust (Abuja)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orkula Shaagee<\/p>\n<p>19 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Former Gombe United FC Chairman yesterday urged the nation&#8217;s football authorities to reply their Argentine counterparts by parading an unfancied team against Argentina in the June 1 international friendly if the likes of Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez are excluded from the visitors&#8217; squad.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to reports that Argentina will be without their main team for the June 1 friendly in Abuja, Gombe noted that Argentina&#8217;s decision to parade a third class team against Nigeria was a dishonour to the country that should not be taken lightly.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, even the marketers of the match and soccer fans in the country will develop cold feet on hearing of absence of star players in the game, which is why he would want Nigeria to respond by parading less fancy players for the game.<\/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>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105200236.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Former Gombe Chairman Wants Eagles Team B Against Argentina\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Former Gombe Chairman Wants Eagles Team B Against Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Orkula Shaagee 19 May 2011 Former Gombe United FC Chairman yesterday urged the nation&#8217;s football authorities to reply their Argentine counterparts by parading an unfancied team against Argentina in the June 1 international friendly if the likes of Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez are excluded from the visitors&#8217; squad. Reacting to reports that Argentina will be without their main team for the June 1 friendly in Abuja, Gombe noted that Argentina&#8217;s decision to parade a third class team against Nigeria was a dishonour to the country that should not be taken lightly. <\/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-427265","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: Former Gombe Chairman Wants Eagles Team B Against Argentina - 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\/05\/20\/nigeria-former-gombe-chairman-wants-eagles-team-b-against-argentina\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Former Gombe Chairman Wants Eagles Team B Against Argentina - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Orkula Shaagee 19 May 2011 Former Gombe United FC Chairman yesterday urged the nation&#039;s football authorities to reply their Argentine counterparts by parading an unfancied team against Argentina in the June 1 international friendly if the likes of Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez are excluded from the visitors&#039; squad. 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