{"id":10514,"date":"2024-01-05T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-ex-eagles-midfielder-backs-peseiro-on-squad-selection\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:03:19","slug":"afcon-2023-ex-eagles-midfielder-backs-peseiro-on-squad-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-ex-eagles-midfielder-backs-peseiro-on-squad-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Ex-Eagles midfielder backs Peseiro on squad selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Super Eagles midfielder, Sylvanus Okpala has backed head coach, Jose Peseiro on his choice of players for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Peseiro released his squad for the competition last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese has been criticised for leaving out the likes of Terem Moffi and Kelechi Nwakali.<\/p>\n<p>The gaffer\u2019s decision to also include captain Ahmed Musa and vice-captain William Troost-EKong has also not been well received in some quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Okpala, a former Super Eagles assistant coach, has however supported Peseiro on his selection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to question a coach\u2019s selection of players. It\u2019s his discretion to pick whoever he wants to pick and leave out whoever he wants to,\u201d Okpala told Brila FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery player has different characteristics, so he has to pick based on his strategy, the formation he wants to play,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you know, that\u2019s how he has to pick the player. And that is why I don\u2019t like to question the selection of coaches, who they have selected or who they have not selected. So I just leave it to the coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Ex-Eagles midfielder backs Peseiro on squad selection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles midfielder, Sylvanus Okpala has backed head coach, Jose Peseiro on his choice of players for the 2023&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,8276,15,1558,160],"tags":[210,110,873,180,1562,201],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-eagles","category-news","category-peseiro","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-peseiro","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}