{"id":80455,"date":"2025-11-17T06:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nigeria-dr-congo-accuses-of-voodoo-after-world-cup-elimination\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:03:23","slug":"nigeria-dr-congo-accuses-of-voodoo-after-world-cup-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/nigeria-dr-congo-accuses-of-voodoo-after-world-cup-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: DR Congo accuses of &#8220;voodoo&#8221; after World Cup elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00c9ric Chelle accuses the Democratic Republic of Congo of &#8220;voodoo&#8221; after Nigeria&#8217;s elimination from the World Cup<\/h2>\n\nNigeria&#8217;s coach, \u00c9ric Chelle, has accused the Democratic Republic of Congo of using &#8220;voodoo&#8221; during the penalty shootout that eliminated his team from the possibility of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.\n\nFrank Onyeka put Nigeria ahead in the crucial qualifying match, but Meschack Elia&#8217;s equalizer took the match to a penalty shootout in which the Democratic Republic of Congo prevailed 4-3, keeping their World Cup hopes alive.\n\nAfter the result, Chelle made an unusual accusation when talking about the penalty shootout that confirmed Nigeria will miss their second consecutive World Cup.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1117%2Fr1576691_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\u00c9ric Chelle ha culpado al vud\u00fa de la derrota de su equipo en la tanda de penaltis ante la Rep\u00fablica Democr\u00e1tica del Congo.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>\u00c9ric Chelle has blamed voodoo for his team&#8217;s defeat in the penalty shootout against the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/em>\n\nChelle told reporters: &#8220;During all the penalty decisions, the Congo boy did some voodoo. Every time&#8230; Every time. That&#8217;s why I was a little nervous after him.&#8221;\n\nWhen asked what she saw, Chelle waved her right arm, but could not confirm the details of her statement.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nigeria out of the World Cup after losing in the penalty shootout against Congo<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n&#8220;Something like this [waving his arm]. You know, with I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s water or something like that, you know,&#8221; he said.\n\nThe defeat, which came against a team ranked 19 places below them, condemned Nigeria to miss their third World Cup since 2006 and&#8230;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9ric Chelle accuses the Democratic Republic of Congo of &#8220;voodoo&#8221; after Nigeria&#8217;s elimination from the World Cup Nigeria&#8217;s coach, \u00c9ric Chelle, has accused the Democratic Republic of Congo of using &#8220;voodoo&#8221; during the penalty shootout that eliminated his team from the possibility of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup. Frank Onyeka put Nigeria ahead in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10256,7547,10257,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-80455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-congo-dr","9":"tag-nigeria","10":"tag-voodoo","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}