{"id":446906,"date":"2011-06-24T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/24\/nigeria-injuries-deplete-olympic-team\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:23:01","slug":"nigeria-injuries-deplete-olympic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/24\/nigeria-injuries-deplete-olympic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Injuries Deplete Olympic Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"24.3472409152\">\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>14 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>A rash of injuries has depleted Austin Eguavoen&#8217;s Olympic team and forced the former international defender to make replacement call-ups.<\/p>\n<p>The Under-23 team are seeking to overturn a 1-0 loss against Tanzania when both sides meet for the second leg of their 2012 Olympic Games qualifier on June 18 in Benin, but have seen their preparations hampered by injries to key call ups.<\/p>\n<p>Pacy forward Ahmed Musa has been ruled out with a back strain sustained playing in Ethiopia with the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>PSV Eindhoven midfielder Rabiu Ibrahim is yet to recover from a knee injury picked up during the All Africa Games qualifier against Liberia in Monrovia and Granada forward Odion Ighalo is a major doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Top of the replacements is Warri Wolves forward Ekigho Ehiosun, who was left out of that first leg reverse due to his involvement with the full international squad in their African Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Ehiosun has scored four goals for the Under-23s.<\/p>\n<p>Also invited are Enyimba striker Maduabuchi Josiah and Sunshine Stars midfielder Otekpa Eneji.<\/p>\n<p>Aberdeen striker Sone Aluko on Sunday arrived the camp of the team while Vietnam based striker Ganiyu Oseni is expected to hit camp today.<\/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>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106240270.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Injuries Deplete Olympic Team\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Injuries Deplete Olympic Team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 14 June 2011 A rash of injuries has depleted Austin Eguavoen&#8217;s Olympic team and forced the former international defender to make replacement call-ups. The Under-23 team are seeking to overturn a 1-0 loss against Tanzania when both sides meet for the second leg of their 2012 Olympic Games qualifier on June 18 in Benin, but have seen their preparations hampered by injries to key call ups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":446783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Injuries Deplete Olympic Team - 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\/24\/nigeria-injuries-deplete-olympic-team\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Injuries Deplete Olympic Team - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"14 June 2011 A rash of injuries has depleted Austin Eguavoen&#039;s Olympic team and forced the former international defender to make replacement call-ups. 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