{"id":156667,"date":"2019-10-01T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=156667"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:50:22","slug":"nigerian-goalkeeper-set-to-make-arsenal-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=156667","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian goalkeeper set to make Arsenal debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Arsenal-free-kick-specialist-agrees-to-play-for-Nigeria.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Ovie Ejeheri has been given the green light by Arsenal\u2019s medical team, to make his debut in the 2019\/2020 season, according to AllNigeriaSoccer.<\/p>\n<p>A small tear in his medial meniscus had prevented the highly-rated Nigerian goalkeeper, from playing for the Gunners\u2019 youth teams in the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Ejeheri was fit enough to be included in the matchday squad, when Arsenal U18s thrashed Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 in their opening Premier League Cup match on September 28, but he did not take part.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old is now targeting a return to action in October.<\/p>\n<p>Ejeheri is eligible to represent Nigeria, England and Uganda internationally, but has pledged his allegiance to the West Africans.<\/p>\n<p>He was set to train with the Golden Eaglets in August, but was stopped by the injury.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ovie Ejeheri has been given the green light by Arsenal\u2019s medical team, to make his debut in the 2019\/2020 season, according to AllNigeriaSoccer. A small tear in his medial meniscus had prevented the highly-rated Nigerian goalkeeper, from playing for the Gunners\u2019 youth teams in the new season. Ejeheri was fit enough to be included in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145000,"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":[2658,4427,13344],"class_list":["post-156667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-arsenal","tag-ovie-ejeheri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156667","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=156667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}