{"id":153677,"date":"2019-09-19T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153677"},"modified":"2019-09-19T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T21:01:31","slug":"nigerian-striker-extends-contract-at-bayern-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153677","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian striker extends contract at Bayern Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Nigerian-striker-extends-contract-at-Bayern-Munich.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Bayern Munich have extended the contract of Nigerian born striker, Joshua Zirkzee.<\/p>\n<p>The highly-rated player, born in Netherlands, has committed his future to the club by penning a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>The new agreement between Bayern Munich and Zirkzee will keep him at The Bavarians until June 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Signed from Feyenoord in 2017, he has scored 39 goals in 64 appearances for Bayern Munich youth teams while providing 20 assists.<\/p>\n<p>In his first words after penning the new contract, Zirkzee told Bayern\u2019s official webpage: \u201dI\u2019m thrilled to have renewed my contract with one of the best clubs in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt gives me additional motivation to continue to go full throttle. I would like to gather game practice with the amateurs and continue to learn in the training of the professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMy big goal is to play for the first team of FC Bayern sometime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A Netherlands U19 international, Zirkzee bagged a hat-trick in his last international match against Portugal on September 10.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old lists VV Hekelingen, Spartaan \u201920 and ADO Den Haag among his previous clubs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich have extended the contract of Nigerian born striker, Joshua Zirkzee. The highly-rated player, born in Netherlands, has committed his future to the club by penning a new deal. The new agreement between Bayern Munich and Zirkzee will keep him at The Bavarians until June 30, 2023. Signed from Feyenoord in 2017, he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153678,"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":[13278,13279],"class_list":["post-153677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bayer-munich","tag-joshua-zirkzee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153677","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=153677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}