{"id":1077,"date":"2023-11-08T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-leverkusen-star-tella-gets-first-super-eagles-invitation\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:01:06","slug":"2026-wcq-leverkusen-star-tella-gets-first-super-eagles-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-leverkusen-star-tella-gets-first-super-eagles-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: Leverkusen star, Tella gets first Super Eagles invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen winger, Nathan Tella has been handed a maiden invitation for Nigeria\u2019s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Tella, who was born in England to Nigerian parents, recently declared his interest to represent the three-time African champions.<\/p>\n<p>According to SCORE Nigeria, Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro has included the 25-year-old in his squad for the games.<\/p>\n<p>The former Burnley player will come in as a direct replacement for the injured Samuel Chukwueze.<\/p>\n<p>Tella, who joined Bundesliga outfit, Bayer Leverkusen this summer, will hope to make his debut for the three-time African champions during the upcoming games.<\/p>\n<p>He will follow the likes of Ademola Lookman and Semi Ajayi, who were born in England but have since opted to play for the country of their parents.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WCQ: Leverkusen star, Tella gets first Super Eagles invitation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen winger, Nathan Tella has been handed a maiden invitation for Nigeria\u2019s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063,15,160,869,2064],"tags":[1026,873,1073,401,2065,2066,180,201,200,870,2067,1025],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leverkusen-star","category-news","category-sport","category-super-eagles","category-tella","tag-1026","tag-eagles","tag-first","tag-gets","tag-invitation","tag-leverkusen","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-star","tag-super","tag-tella","tag-wcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","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=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}