{"id":37724,"date":"2026-06-22T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37724"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:36:52","slug":"former-super-eagles-coach-hits-out-at-nff-over-man-made-world-cup-failure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-super-eagles-coach-hits-out-at-nff-over-man-made-world-cup-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Super Eagles coach hits out at NFF over &#8220;man-made&#8221; World Cup failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Cup now under way in North America, Nigeria is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that the Super Eagles are sitting this one out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former national team coach James Peters has launched a stinging attack on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) leadership, saying their failure to qualify for the tournament was completely avoidable and down to sheer mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peters, widely known as JP, didn&#8217;t hold back when pointing fingers over the disastrous qualification campaign. He took particular aim at the decision to put Nigerian coach and football player, Finidi George in the dugout, questioning his credentials for a job of that scale. While he praised Eric Chelle as a top-tier appointment, he argued the move came far too late to save Nigeria&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that one of Africa\u2019s biggest footballing giants is watching the tournament from the sidelines is a bitter pill to swallow for fans, and Peters insists the federation has nobody to blame but themselves for playing with the country&#8217;s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37725,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[305,20],"class_list":["post-37724","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-special-projects","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Nigeria is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that the Super Eagles are sitting this World Cup out","published_date":"2026-06-22 13:07:17","news_description":"Nigeria is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that the Super Eagles are sitting this World Cup out","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37726,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37724\/revisions\/37726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}