{"id":122953,"date":"2019-06-02T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122953"},"modified":"2019-06-02T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T17:09:24","slug":"champions-league-final-salah-joins-etoo-drogba-in-exclusive-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122953","title":{"rendered":"Champions League final: Salah joins Eto&#8217;o, Drogba in exclusive club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Champions-League-final-Salah-joins-Etoo-Drogba-in-exclusive-club.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Mohamed Salah has joined Rabah Madjer, Samuel Eto\u2019o, Didier Drogba and Sadio Mane, as the only Africans to have scored in a final of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian superstar opened scoring for Liverpool in the second minute, as they went on to defeat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in Madrid on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Salah\u2019s goal was also the second fastest goal in the competition\u2019s final, behind Paolo Maldini\u2019s effort at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>AC Milan\u2019s Maldini record came in 2005 against Liverpool, after he found the net in just 50 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Italian club famously went ahead to lose the game on penalties.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah has joined Rabah Madjer, Samuel Eto\u2019o, Didier Drogba and Sadio Mane, as the only Africans to have scored in a final of the Champions League. The Egyptian superstar opened scoring for Liverpool in the second minute, as they went on to defeat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in Madrid on Saturday night. Salah\u2019s goal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3],"tags":[3367,11638],"class_list":["post-122953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-liverpool","tag-mo-salah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}