{"id":3671,"date":"2023-10-03T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T00:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/03\/read_news-phpnid49006\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T00:43:13","slug":"read_news-phpnid49006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/03\/read_news-phpnid49006\/","title":{"rendered":"Peseiro handed boost pre-Saudi Arabia as Fenerbahce defender returns to action\u00a0:: All Nigeria Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/10415BOS.png\" height=\"217\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Peseiro handed boost pre-Saudi Arabia as Fenerbahce defender returns to action\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will return to action on October 13 when they take on Saudi Arabia in an international friendly scheduled to hold at\u00a0Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Portim\u00e3o, <strong>allnigeriasoccer.com<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro\u00a0has been handed a boost ahead of his squad announcement with Fenerbahce defender Bright Osayi-Samuel returning to action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Blackpool academy product started for the Yellow Canaries in their 5-0 hammering of Rizespor in the Turkish Super Lig on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Osayi-Samuel was omitted from Fenerbahce&#8217;s matchday squad against\u00a0Basaksehir FK in the penultimate round of games in the division due to discomfort\u00a0he felt in the last training session, but hs fitness concerns are over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old was not called up for the dead rubber 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match with\u00a0S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe\u00a0because he was managing a groin injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Osayi-Samuel has started playing\u00a0regularly again under manager\u00a0\u0130smail Kartal\u00a0with ten starts from a possible fourteen in all competitions so far this season, and he could have started more games but was not available for selection for three matches due to injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Osayi-Samuel&#8217;s return to action will be sweet music to the ears of Peseiro\u00a0who is sweating over the fitness of defenders Calvin Bassey (Fulham), Zaidu Sanusi (Porto) and Semi Ajayi (West Brom) before next week&#8217;s friendly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from allnigeriasoccer.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=49006\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria will return to action on October 13 when they take on Saudi Arabia in an international friendly scheduled to hold at\u00a0Est\u00e1dio Municipal de Portim\u00e3o, allnigeriasoccer.com reports. \u00a0 Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro\u00a0has been handed a boost ahead of his squad announcement with Fenerbahce defender Bright Osayi-Samuel returning to action.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Blackpool academy product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}