{"id":20082,"date":"2026-01-13T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:21:07","slug":"victor-osimhen-finds-scoring-touch-to-give-nigeria-cutting-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20082\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Osimhen finds scoring touch to give Nigeria cutting edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a moment that summed up Nigeria\u2019s failed World Cup qualifying campaign, it was perhaps Victor Osimhen\u2019s incredible miss during a crunch playoff against Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE TO KEEP READING<\/p>\n<p>Daily TV listings for U.S. and global soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Inside access to USA\u2019s 2026 World Cup prep.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive interviews with players and coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Expert analysis of top soccer headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Already have an account? Sign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not ready to subscribe? Sign up here for our free newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Already have an account? Sign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there was a moment that summed up Nigeria\u2019s failed World Cup qualifying campaign, it was perhaps Victor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[63,5902,122,10574],"class_list":{"0":"post-20082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-african-nations-cup","10":"tag-nigeria","11":"tag-world-cup-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}