{"id":16189,"date":"2024-02-08T22:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-caf-picks-super-eagles-ajayi-for-drug-test-after-win-over-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T22:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:02:35","slug":"afcon-caf-picks-super-eagles-ajayi-for-drug-test-after-win-over-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-caf-picks-super-eagles-ajayi-for-drug-test-after-win-over-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON: CAF picks Super Eagles\u2019 Ajayi for drug test after win over South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles defender, Semi Ajayi has disclosed that he was not present for head coach Jose Peseiro\u2019s post-game team talk after Nigeria defeated South Africa in the semi-final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations tie on Wednesday because he was being drug tested by Confederation of African Football, (CAF) officials shortly after the match.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the West Brom star was one of the standout players as Super Eagles defeated the Bafana Bafana via penalty shootout after the game ended in a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in the mixed zone after the game, Ajayi said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not there [Peseiro\u2019s team talk], I was getting tested so I missed everything,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAmazing. We came here to win, we are one step away from that now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as we need to enjoy today we need to fully focus on Sunday because we\u2019ve got one last push to bring the Cup home to Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON: CAF picks Super Eagles\u2019 Ajayi for drug test after win over South Africa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles defender, Semi Ajayi has disclosed that he was not present for head coach Jose Peseiro\u2019s post-game team talk&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103,9617,1144,15,6767,160,869],"tags":[110,140,376,111,873,180,1734,201,870],"class_list":["post-16189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon","category-ajayi","category-caf","category-news","category-south-africa","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-ajayi","tag-caf","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-south","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189","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=16189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}