{"id":233165,"date":"2026-06-15T00:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=233165"},"modified":"2026-06-15T00:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:54:35","slug":"15-players-of-nigerian-descent-to-watch-at-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=233165","title":{"rendered":"15 players of Nigerian descent to watch at the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 FIFA World Cup has officially begun, drawing 48 nations into football\u2019s most expansive tournament to date, yet Nigeria is absent after failing to secure qualification through the African qualifiers.<br \/>\nThe post 15 players of Nigerian descent to watch at the 2026 World Cup appeared first on Nairametrics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nairametrics.com\/2026\/06\/14\/15-players-of-nigerian-descent-to-watch-at-the-2026-world-cup\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 FIFA World Cup has officially begun, drawing 48 nations into football\u2019s most expansive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}