{"id":148147,"date":"2025-11-25T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=148147"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:28:31","slug":"nigeria-out-of-2026-world-cup-race-coach-blames-voodoo-first-sports-with-rupha-ramani-n18g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=148147","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Out Of 2026 World Cup Race, Coach Blames Voodoo | First Sports With Rupha Ramani | N18G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BYBQn56LMUA?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Nigeria\u2019s 2026 World Cup dream has collapsed after a shocking defeat to DR Congo, but instead of addressing tactical issues, player disputes, and deep-rooted mismanagement, the Nigerian coach has blamed the loss on \u201cVoodoo.\u201d Rupha Ramani breaks down the truth behind that sensational claim and reveals the real crisis inside Nigerian football. With a legacy of six World Cups and multiple AFCON titles, Nigeria should be leading African football\u2014so why are they falling apart? Watch the full report to find out about the chaos, the excuses, and the tough questions the federation refuses to answer. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria | 2026 World Cup | Voodoo | Football | Soccer | First Sports | Rupha Ramani | Firstpost | Sports News<\/p>\n<p>#nigera #football #worldcup #voodoo #firstsports #rupharamani #sportsnews #firstpost<\/p>\n<p>Firstpost is an Indian news and media website. Get all the incisive opinions, in-depth analyses and other visual stories that matter to you and the world right here on this channel. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Firstpost channel and press the bell icon to get notified when we go live.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Firstpost<\/p>\n<p>Follow Firstpost on Website:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.firstpost.com<\/p>\n<p>Follow Firstpost on Instagram:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/firstpost\/ <\/p>\n<p>Follow Firstpost on Facebook:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/firstpostin\/ <\/p>\n<p>Follow Firstpost on X:<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"760\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/firstpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by firstpost<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Follow Firstpost on WhatsApp:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va6zOIrEQIamseyg762V<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BYBQn56LMUA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s 2026 World Cup dream has collapsed after a shocking defeat to DR Congo, but instead of addressing tactical issues, player disputes, and deep-rooted mismanagement, the Nigerian coach has blamed&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4743,"featured_media":148148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}