{"id":145059,"date":"2019-08-20T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145059"},"modified":"2019-08-20T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:38:59","slug":"transfer-nigerian-defender-joins-top-spanish-laliga-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145059","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Nigerian defender joins top Spanish LaLiga club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Transfer-Nigerian-defender-joins-top-Spanish-LaLiga-club.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria U17 World Cup-winning defender, Lukman Zakari has completed a move to La Liga side Real Betis.<\/p>\n<p>The defender joined the La Liga side from Latvian top flight club Metta.<\/p>\n<p>The highly-rated central defender signed a contract that will keep him at the club until the end of the 2021-2022 season following a successful medical.<\/p>\n<p>Zakari was set for a big move following a string of fine performances for Metta, making the Team of the Week on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to allnigeriasoccer.com shortly after signing the contract, Zakari said, \u201dI am very happy to get this opportunity to play for Real Betis, all I need to do is to work hard and achieve my aim of coming here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI never expected to come here but football is about giving your best and you will see the result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI am very happy about this move and I want to thank my manager, parents and everybody that supported me in this journey. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>His agent, John Chibuzo, brokered the deal that took the 20-year-old to Real Betis.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria U17 World Cup-winning defender, Lukman Zakari has completed a move to La Liga side Real Betis. The defender joined the La Liga side from Latvian top flight club Metta. The highly-rated central defender signed a contract that will keep him at the club until the end of the 2021-2022 season following a successful medical. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145060,"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":[],"class_list":["post-145059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145059","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=145059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}