{"id":440845,"date":"2011-06-14T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/14\/nigeria-forgive-me-for-that-world-cup-blunder-aiyegbeni-begs\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:27:56","slug":"nigeria-forgive-me-for-that-world-cup-blunder-aiyegbeni-begs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/nigeria-forgive-me-for-that-world-cup-blunder-aiyegbeni-begs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Forgive Me for That World Cup Blunder, Aiyegbeni Begs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"19.7703788749\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Estranged Eagles&#8217; striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni was shocked to find out that Nigerian fans were yet to forget his world famous miss at the South Africa 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Everton of England striker was booed at every touch of the ball during last weekend&#8217;s testimonial held at the Teslim Balogun stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is normal that if you play a game and fans don&#8217;t like it they resort to booing you. I missed a chance to score at the world Cup. It&#8217;s painful. I didn&#8217;t do that intentionally. I just want to say I am sorry about it. They should forgive and forget and let us move on,&#8221; Yakubu said.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu, however, would love to return to the national team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, if I am not ready to serve my country I won&#8217;t be here today (Saturday) to play Green-white-Green. It is my country, my home, and I am enjoying it, everyone wants to play for his country.&#8221;<\/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 original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106140733.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Forgive Me for That World Cup Blunder, Aiyegbeni Begs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Forgive Me for That World Cup Blunder, Aiyegbeni Begs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 13 June 2011 Estranged Eagles&#8217; striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni was shocked to find out that Nigerian fans were yet to forget his world famous miss at the South Africa 2010 World Cup. The Everton of England striker was booed at every touch of the ball during last weekend&#8217;s testimonial held at the Teslim Balogun stadium. &#8220;It is normal that if you play a game and fans don&#8217;t like it they resort to booing you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":422120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-440845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Forgive Me for That World Cup Blunder, Aiyegbeni Begs - 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\/06\/14\/nigeria-forgive-me-for-that-world-cup-blunder-aiyegbeni-begs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Forgive Me for That World Cup Blunder, Aiyegbeni Begs - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"13 June 2011 Estranged Eagles&#039; striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni was shocked to find out that Nigerian fans were yet to forget his world famous miss at the South Africa 2010 World Cup. 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