{"id":550,"date":"2020-08-31T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:03:06","slug":"former-flying-eagles-goalkeeper-felagha-dies-at-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2020\/08\/31\/former-flying-eagles-goalkeeper-felagha-dies-at-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Flying Eagles Goalkeeper, John Felagha, Dies At 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The football fraternity in Nigeria has been hit with another devastating news as the death of a former junior international, John Felagha, has now been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Felagha, a former Flying Eagles goalkeeper, has died.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He died in Senegal on Sunday, according to the Nigeria Football Federation on its Twitter page on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was Golden Eaglets shot stopper at the 2009 U-17 FIFA World Cup held in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>NFF expressed condolence with the family of the late player.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet reads, \u201cFormer National U-17 and U-20 goalkeeper, John Felagha, has died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFelagha died on Sunday in Senegal. He was aged 26. The federation expressed its condolences with the family of the late player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former National U17 and U20 goal keeper John Felagha has died. Felagha died on Sunday in Senegal. He was aged 26. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zr5M8RjUWw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Zr5M8RjUWw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The NFF ???????? (@thenff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thenff\/status\/1300382069785321472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though he was on the bench throughout the tournament as Nigeria won silver behind Switzerland, Felagha was a member of the 2009 Golden Eaglets squad.<\/p>\n<p>Felagha was also part of 2013 FIFA U-20 World cup but failed to play a single match in the tournament<\/p>\n<p>He later joined the Belgian side KAC Eupen in 2013 were he managed a few competitive appearances for the Jupiter League side.<\/p>\n<p>He was said to be awaiting airlifting back to Nigeria on holidays before the unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The football fraternity in Nigeria has been hit with another devastating news as the death of a former junior international, John Felagha, has now been confirmed. John Felagha, a former Flying Eagles goalkeeper, has died. He died in Senegal on Sunday, according to the Nigeria Football Federation on its Twitter page on Monday. The 26-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,249],"tags":[217,250,251],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Felagha.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-8S","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}