{"id":37380,"date":"2024-06-15T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-osimhen-slams-finidi\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:06:00","slug":"2026-wcq-osimhen-slams-finidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-osimhen-slams-finidi\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: Don\u2019t blame for two bad games \u2013 Osimhen slams Finidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Napoli forward, Victor Osimhen has hit back at former Super Eagles head coach, Finidi George over his comments on his commitment towards the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen missed the Super Eagles recent 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against South Africa and Benin Republic due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Finidi stated that the striker could still have managed to play the two matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has now fired back at the former winger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Finidi George to allow me stay with the players in the camp, but Finidi asked me not to bother that I should stay with my family,\u201d he reacted on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow after two bad games, everybody is now blaming me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how many injuries I\u2019ve played with for Nigeria and I played my heart out but after two bad games, everybody is attacking me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finidi resigned from his position as Super Eagles head coach on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WCQ: Don\u2019t blame for two bad games \u2013 Osimhen slams Finidi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli forward, Victor Osimhen has hit back at former Super Eagles head coach, Finidi George over his comments on his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1151,15,1557,160],"tags":[1026,8,6107,294,705,1153,190,1152,180,1560,655,201,833,1025],"class_list":["post-37380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finidi","category-news","category-osimhen","category-sport","tag-1026","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-bad","tag-blame","tag-dont","tag-finidi","tag-for","tag-games","tag-news","tag-osimhen","tag-slams","tag-sport","tag-two","tag-wcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37380","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=37380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}