{"id":82530,"date":"2025-12-19T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82530"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:29:44","slug":"soccer-nigeria-allege-dr-congo-fielded-ineligible-players-in-world-cup-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/19\/soccer-nigeria-allege-dr-congo-fielded-ineligible-players-in-world-cup-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Nigeria allege DR Congo fielded ineligible players in World Cup playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1SyYbn.img?w=534&amp;h=330&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup - CAF Qualifiers - Playoffs - Final - Nigeria v Democratic Republic of Congo - Prince Moulay Hassan Stadium, Rabat, Morocco - November 16, 2025 Democratic Republic of Congo players line up during a penalty shootout REUTERS\/Abdelmjid Rizkou\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria have submitted a petition to FIFA alleging the Democratic Republic of Congo fielded ineligible players in their African qualification play-off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/sport\/football\/soccer-nigeria-allege-dr-congo-fielded-ineligible-players-in-world-cup-playoff\/ar-AA1SzcuI?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6945194330ed4a4194644f6d27c19299&amp;ei=24\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigeria have submitted a petition to FIFA alleging the Democratic Republic of Congo fielded ineligible players in their African qualification play-off Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FIFA.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82532,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82530\/revisions\/82532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}