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Nigeriahas been drawn to play in group B of the Owelle mock \u2013 Nations cup billed to kick \u2013 start on Sunday the 26th<\/sup> at theOjiPrimary School.<\/p>\n According to the draws released by the organizers of the annual event,Nigeriawill trade tackles withTogo,South Africa, Burkina \u2013 Faso and new \u2013 comersMauritaniafor a place in the quarter final stage.<\/p>\n Nigeriawon the maiden edition of the tournament seven (7) years ago with players like Kanu Nwankwo, Mobi Oparaku and Uche Oguchi now with Heartland FC.<\/p>\n Tunisia,CameroonandKenyaare the three other countries that have won the cup in the past 7 years.<\/p>\n Four new teams,Mauritania,BeninRepublic,SudanandLibyaqualified to join the 16 teams of last year in a 20 team tournament divided into 4 \u2013groups of 5 \u2013 countries in a group.<\/p>\n The chairman of the local organizing committee (LOC) Mr. Raymond Ebede stated thatCongocould not make it to the finals this year and that all the teams that qualified were certified by the technical committee.\u00a0 He said the teams all have good teams that will continue to play good football for the spectators.<\/p>\n Kenyawon the last edition by beating Burkina-faso 2 \u2013 0 in that final that was graced by His Excellency, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and Amb. Kanu Nwankwo the SA on sports to the Governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigeriahas been drawn to play in group B of the Owelle mock – Nations cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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