{"id":16863,"date":"2024-02-13T06:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/we-will-soar-again-troost-ekong-upbeat-super-eagles-will-move-on-from-afcon-disappointment\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T06:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:02:33","slug":"we-will-soar-again-troost-ekong-upbeat-super-eagles-will-move-on-from-afcon-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/we-will-soar-again-troost-ekong-upbeat-super-eagles-will-move-on-from-afcon-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will soar again\u2019 \u2013 Troost-Ekong upbeat Super Eagles will move on from AFCON disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>William Troost-Ekong is optimistic the Super Eagles will come back stronger after failing to win a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title in Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles lost 2-1 to the hosts in the final of the competition on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Troost-Ekong, who expressed his disappointment on the team\u2019s defeat to the Elephants, also thanked the fans for their support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaija thank you! I love you. No words can justify the feeling of losing a final. I\u2019m proud of our team, our nation, our spirit; heads up, keep trying, we will soar again. Congratulations CIV,\u201d the defender wrote on his official X handle.<\/p>\n<p>The centre-back finished the competition as Nigeria\u2019s joint-top scorer with three goals.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was also named Player of the Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We will soar again\u2019 \u2013 Troost-Ekong upbeat Super Eagles will move on from AFCON disappointment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Troost-Ekong is optimistic the Super Eagles will come back stronger after failing to win a fourth Africa Cup of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103,15,160,869,9125],"tags":[110,873,180,201,870,9126],"class_list":["post-16863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon","category-news","category-sport","category-super-eagles","category-troost-ekong","tag-afcon","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-super","tag-troost-ekong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863","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=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}