{"id":16277,"date":"2013-10-31T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16277"},"modified":"2013-10-31T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:10:02","slug":"nff-waives-off-iranian-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/10\/31\/nff-waives-off-iranian-accusation\/","title":{"rendered":"NFF waives off Iranian accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supersport &#8211; DUBAI,\u00a0<strong>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has insisted that none of the 21 footballers currently representing the country at the ongoing Fifa Under-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates is overage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NFF\u2019s clarification comes on the heels of the claims made by Iran\u2019s coach, Ali Doustimehr that Nigeria is parading overage players at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria outclassed Iran 4-1 in the round of 16 at the tournament on Tuesday but Doustimehr was insistent that his wards lost to players older than 17.<\/p>\n<p>The NFF has now officially reacted to Doustimehr\u2019s accusations insisting that \u201cnot one player\u201d in the Nigeria squad is overage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that not one player from our U17 squad is overage. They all went though Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans before the tournament and those who failed the tests were dropped,\u201d chairman of the NFF\u2019s technical committee, Barrister Chris Green told supersport.com.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will meet Uruguay in the quarter finals of the competition on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Eaglets have been in impervious form at the tournament. Manu Garba\u2019s charges are the joint top scorers in the competition with 18 goals racked up in 4 games.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has won the Fifa U17 title three times previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supersport &#8211; DUBAI,\u00a0The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has insisted that none of the 21 footballers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3003,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}