{"id":83945,"date":"2026-04-25T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/ex-nigeria-forward-michael-eneramo-dies-after-collapsing-during-match\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:14:08","slug":"ex-nigeria-forward-michael-eneramo-dies-after-collapsing-during-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/ex-nigeria-forward-michael-eneramo-dies-after-collapsing-during-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Nigeria forward Michael Eneramo dies after collapsing during match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Apr 24, 2026, 08:22 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>ABUJA, Nigeria &#8212; Former Nigeria forward Michael Eneramo died after collapsing on the field during a friendly game on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Eneramo &#8220;appeared to have suffered cardiac arrest five minutes into the second half of the said friendly match,&#8221; the Nigerian Football Federation said, citing early reports.<\/p>\n<p>Eneramo played the whole first half of the game in Ungwan Yelwa, Kaduna, on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is devastating. I am short of words at this moment,&#8221; NFF general secretary Mohammed Sanusi said.<\/p>\n<p>Eneramo made 10 appearances for Nigeria after turning down the opportunity to play for Tunisia, where he enjoyed a prolific club career and considered accepting citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>He was nicknamed &#8220;The Tank&#8221; by fans of Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis, which he helped to &#8220;a number of silverwares,&#8221; the NFF said. He also played in Turkey for Sivasspor, Be\u015fikta\u015f and Ba\u015fak\u015fehir among others.<\/p>\n<p>Eneramo made his Nigeria debut against Jamaica in a friendly in February 2009, then scored his first international goal against Ireland in the next game three months later, also a friendly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 24, 2026, 08:22 PM ET ABUJA, Nigeria &#8212; Former Nigeria forward Michael Eneramo died after collapsing on the field during a friendly game on Friday. The 40-year-old Eneramo &#8220;appeared to have suffered cardiac arrest five minutes into the second half of the said friendly match,&#8221; the Nigerian Football Federation said, citing early reports. Eneramo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1648777_720x405_16-9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}