{"id":151674,"date":"2019-09-12T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151674"},"modified":"2019-09-12T18:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:01:15","slug":"england-manager-southgate-tells-chelsea-striker-to-snub-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151674","title":{"rendered":"England manager, Southgate tells Chelsea striker to snub Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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England boss, Gareth Southgate, has advised Tammy Abraham to reject the overtures of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and stick with his country of birth.<\/p>\n

Abraham was first approached by the Super Eagles in 2017, but insisted he was waiting for his chance with the Three Lions.<\/p>\n

However, it is a big challenge for the Chelsea striker, to get into the present England squad as he is behind Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Callum Wilson in the pecking order.<\/p>\n

But Southgate has hinted that he is up for consideration for their upcoming matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cTammy is a young player that we\u2019ve always liked, we know he\u2019ll score goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt it was a bit early this time to call him up, but we really can see that he can offer us something moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave him a cap back in November of 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure, we need to make certain that he feels that the opportunity is going to be there. I\u2019m pretty sure he does, he knows us well enough,\u201d Southgate was quoted as saying by Daily Express.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England boss, Gareth Southgate, has advised Tammy Abraham to reject the overtures of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and stick with his country of birth. Abraham was first approached by the Super Eagles in 2017, but insisted he was waiting for his chance with the Three Lions. However, it is a big challenge for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151675,"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":[1397,243,12539],"class_list":["post-151674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea","tag-nigeria","tag-tammy-abraham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151674","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=151674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}