{"id":1512,"date":"2014-02-06T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2014-02-07T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T06:23:19","slug":"nigerian-midfielder-seek-divine-intervention-to-be-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/nigerian-midfielder-seek-divine-intervention-to-be-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Midfielder Seek Divine Intervention To Be In Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles midfielder Gabriel Reuben is seeking divine intervention to be part of \u00a0the Nigerian squad to this year&#8217;s FIFA World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Reuben made this known during an interview with Waasland-Beveren TV .<\/p>\n<p>The former Kano Pillars star said picking a Super Eagles shirt would be a huge task, considering the number of talented Nigerian players that are hoping to be part of coach Stephen Keshi&#8217;s team to the global event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Yes, the chance to play for Nigeria at World Cup will be possible with God. Nigeria have a large pool of good players. If it is my time to play at the World Cup in Brazil, I will make the team. I will be working hard and pray to God to make it.&#8221; Reuben said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuben, who joined Waaslav-Beveren from Scottish side Kilmarnock also spoke about his trials at Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I was there at Tottenham Hotspur for trials, I was training with them. I put everything in the hand of God then that his will should be done.&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles midfielder Gabriel Reuben is seeking divine intervention to be part of \u00a0the Nigerian squad to this year&#8217;s FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Reuben made this known during an interview with Waasland-Beveren TV . The former Kano Pillars star said picking a Super Eagles shirt would be a huge task, considering the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}