{"id":444247,"date":"2011-06-20T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T09:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/nigeria-beach-soccer-nation-qualifies-for-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T09:15:24","slug":"nigeria-beach-soccer-nation-qualifies-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/nigeria-beach-soccer-nation-qualifies-for-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Beach Soccer &#8211; Nation Qualifies for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"19.8984432913\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/thisday180.jpg\" alt=\"This Day (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit This Day (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>18 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The National Beach Soccer team, otherwise known as Supersand Eagles, reached this year&#8217;s FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup after a hard-fought 7-6 defeat of Madagascar in Casablanca on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Home-based Super Eagles&#8217; midfield ace and veteran beach soccer campaigner, Ikechukwu Ibenegbu scored four of the goals in the see-saw game that had the Supersand Eagles on the backfoot most of the evening. Another veteran, Isiaka Olawale scored Nigeria&#8217;s winner in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Victory means a place in the final of the African Beach Soccer Championship and an opportunity to win the trophy for the third time, as well as a place at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup coming up in Ravenna, Italy from September 1st -11th this year.<\/p>\n<p>Triumph on the well-laid beaches of Morocco&#8217;s industrial and commercial capital on Sunday would mean a third continental trophy for Nigeria since the advent of the Aminu Maigari-led Executive Committee less than a year ago.<\/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>Read the article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106200524.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Beach Soccer - Nation Qualifies for World Cup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Beach Soccer &#8211; Nation Qualifies for World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 18 June 2011 The National Beach Soccer team, otherwise known as Supersand Eagles, reached this year&#8217;s FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup after a hard-fought 7-6 defeat of Madagascar in Casablanca on Saturday evening. Home-based Super Eagles&#8217; midfield ace and veteran beach soccer campaigner, Ikechukwu Ibenegbu scored four of the goals in the see-saw game that had the Supersand Eagles on the backfoot most of the evening. Another veteran, Isiaka Olawale scored Nigeria&#8217;s winner in the final quarter<\/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-444247","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: Beach Soccer - Nation Qualifies for World Cup - 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\/20\/nigeria-beach-soccer-nation-qualifies-for-world-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Beach Soccer - Nation Qualifies for World Cup - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"18 June 2011 The National Beach Soccer team, otherwise known as Supersand Eagles, reached this year&#039;s FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup after a hard-fought 7-6 defeat of Madagascar in Casablanca on Saturday evening. 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