{"id":134254,"date":"2019-07-09T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134254"},"modified":"2019-07-09T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:28:35","slug":"afcon-2019-ighalo-speaks-on-winning-golden-boot-ahead-of-south-africa-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134254","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Ighalo speaks on winning Golden Boot ahead of South Africa clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AFCON-2019-Ighalo-speaks-on-winning-Golden-Boot-ahead-of-South-Africa-clash.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has said he wants to emulate compatriots Segun Odegbami, Rashidi Yekini, Julius Aghahowa, Austin Okocha and Emmanuel Emenike, by emerging the top scorer of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Ighalo is currently on three goals along with Sadio Man\u00e9, C\u00e9dric Bakambu and Adam Ounas, in the race to finish top scorer.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Shanghai Shenhua frontman insists that the team comes ahead of personal success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be nice but first I\u2019ll put the team ahead because if I don\u2019t win the Golden Boot and we win the trophy I\u2019ll be very happy because we are here to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a striker, I want to score goals but if the goal does not come and we win the game, I\u2019ll be more satisfied,\u201d Ighalo told a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has said he wants to emulate compatriots Segun Odegbami, Rashidi Yekini, Julius Aghahowa, Austin Okocha and Emmanuel Emenike, by emerging the top scorer of the Africa Cup of Nations. Ighalo is currently on three goals along with Sadio Man\u00e9, C\u00e9dric Bakambu and Adam Ounas, in the race to finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134255,"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":[12513,4046],"class_list":["post-134254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-odion-ighalo","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134254","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=134254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}