{"id":12613,"date":"2026-11-08T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/2027-u-23-afconq-chelle-names-olympic-eagles-squad-for-dr-congo-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:46:51","slug":"2027-u-23-afconq-chelle-names-olympic-eagles-squad-for-dr-congo-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/2027-u-23-afconq-chelle-names-olympic-eagles-squad-for-dr-congo-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 U-23 AFCONQ: Chelle Names Olympic Eagles Squad For DR Congo Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach \u00c9ric Chelle has named a 23-man squad for the Olympic Eagles\u2019 2027 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations second-round qualifying tie against the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The squad comprises seven home-based players, while the remaining 16 are professionals plying their trade outside Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Among the foreign-based players selected by Chelle are Peter Edokpolor, Zadok Yohanna, Samuel James, Daniel Daga, Victory Akpe, Umar Abubakar and Vince Osuji.<\/p>\n<p>The team and its officials are scheduled to depart Nigeria on Tuesday ahead of the first-leg encounter, which will take place at the TP Mazembe Stadium in Lubumbashi on Friday, November 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2027-u-23-afconq-ugandan-official-to-officiate-dr-congo-olympic-eagles-first-leg\/\">2027 U-23 AFCONQ: Ugandan Official To Officiate DR Congo\u2013Olympic Eagles First Leg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The return leg is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, at the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne-Remo, where the Olympic Eagles will hope to secure qualification for the next round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Squad <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Samuel James (SJK FC, Finland); Clinton Andy (Rivers United); Michael Atata (Ikorodu City)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders: <\/strong>Christian Akpan (Genk FC, Belgium); Victory Akpe (FC Basel, Switzerland); Vince Osuji (Troms\u00f8 IL FC, Norway); Emmanuel Godwin (Pardubice FC, Czechia); Odinaka Alfred (Nasarawa United); Emmanuel Ochobi (Rivers United); Aliu Sugau (Barau FC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders: <\/strong>John Otomewo (Reims FC, France); Daniel Daga (Molde FC, Norway); Wilfred George (Kristiansund FC, Norway); Chibuzor Nwoko (Fulham FC, England); Aderemi Adeoye (Ikorodu City); Sadiq Saleh (FC Metta, Latvia); Victor Samuel (Pardubice FC, Czechia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Peter Edokpolor (SL Benfica, Portugal); Sulaiman Sani (Al-Qadsiah FC, Saudi Arabia); Umar Abubakar (FC Famalicao, Portugal); Zadok Yohanna (Brighton FC, England); Abdullahi Umar (Hradec Kralove, Czechia); Abdulmuiz Adeleke (Sporting Supreme)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach \u00c9ric Chelle has named a 23-man squad for the Olympic Eagles\u2019 2027 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations second-round qualifying tie against the Democratic Republic of Congo. The squad&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}