{"id":4279,"date":"2014-06-07T03:31:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T03:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2014-06-07T03:31:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T03:31:19","slug":"yobo-says-super-eagles-will-surprise-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/yobo-says-super-eagles-will-surprise-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Yobo Says Super Eagles Will Surprise The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo says he is happy for Nigeria to be written off as World Cup underdogs.<\/p>\n<p>The former Everton defender said it is a good thing that soccer fans are not tipping the African champions to do well in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria face a tough time in Brazil after being drawn against Argentina, Bosnia and Iran in Group F.<\/p>\n<p>Yobo however hinted that the world would be surprised by the Africans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think when the tournament begins you will see the real Nigerian team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy to see people talk about other nations rather than ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo says he is happy for Nigeria to be written off as World Cup underdogs. The former Everton defender said it is a good thing that soccer fans are not tipping the African champions to do well in Brazil. Nigeria face a tough time in Brazil after being drawn against Argentina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4280,"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\/4279"}],"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=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}