{"id":6145,"date":"2013-01-19T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/afcon-2013-eagles-are-looking-sharp-moses\/"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:27:00","slug":"afcon-2013-eagles-are-looking-sharp-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/19\/afcon-2013-eagles-are-looking-sharp-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2013: Eagles are looking sharp \u2013 Moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry_wrap fix\" readability=\"39.272998296422\">\n<div class=\"entry_content\" readability=\"49\">\n<p>Super Eagles striker, Victor Moses has spoken of the enthusiasm in the squad ahead of Monday\u2019s 2013 Africa Cup of Nations group match against the Stallions of Burkina Faso after the country\u2019s senior national team rounded off their first training session in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Chelsea winger said he and his colleagues were battle ready to do the nation proud by starting their Afcon group clash with a win over their West African foes.<\/p>\n<p>He admonished Nigerians to get behind the Eagles if they want the team to soar in South Africa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_348033\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone c21\" readability=\"9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-348033\" alt=\"Nigeria's forward Victor Moses (C) argues with Cape Verde's defender Nando (R) during the International friendly football match Nigeria vs Cape Verde in Faro on January 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cca0Moses-tackle.jpg\" width=\"412\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigeria\u2019s forward Victor Moses (C) argues with Cape Verde\u2019s defender Nando (R) during the International friendly football match Nigeria vs Cape Verde in Faro on January 9, 2013. AFP PHOTO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe had our first training session in South Africa and the boys are looking sharp. We are looking forward to the tournament and of course the first game against Burkina Faso,\u201d the Nigerian said.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles will also play Ethiopia and title holders, Zambia in their other group ties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<p><noscript readability=\"1.15625\"><\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=vanguardngr\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">blog comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Super Eagles striker, Victor Moses has spoken of the enthusiasm in the squad ahead of Monday\u2019s 2013 Africa Cup of Nations group match against the Stallions of Burkina Faso after the country\u2019s senior national team rounded off their first training session in South Africa. &#8230;<\/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-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}