{"id":157531,"date":"2019-10-04T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157531"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:36:56","slug":"kanu-nwankwo-reacts-to-tammy-abraham-tomori-receiving-england-call-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157531","title":{"rendered":"Kanu Nwankwo reacts to Tammy Abraham, Tomori receiving England call-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Nigeria international, Nwankwo Kanu, has said he is unmoved, after England handed Tammy Abraham and Fikayo Tomori international call-ups.<\/p>\n

Gareth Southgate included the duo in the Three Lions\u2019 squad to face the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in October\u2019s Euro 2020 qualification games.<\/p>\n

If both players are cap in either game, they will become ineligible to represent the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n

However, Kanu is not bothered, as he feels the West African nation is blessed with talents.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur problem is that whenever someone starts doing well, we start chasing them which is not bad because other countries do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel we don\u2019t need to force people to play for the country, because Nigeria is bigger than any player.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have quality players everywhere so we can\u2019t continue to beg one player to play for us. Nigeria cannot beg, players have to beg Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best way to always go about this is talking to them to play for their fatherland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they do, it\u2019s good for us and if they don\u2019t we move on. That\u2019s football and I think we have enough and we can win matches without them,\u201d Kanu told Goal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Nigeria international, Nwankwo Kanu, has said he is unmoved, after England handed Tammy Abraham and Fikayo Tomori international call-ups. Gareth Southgate included the duo in the Three Lions\u2019 squad to face the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in October\u2019s Euro 2020 qualification games. If both players are cap in either game, they will become ineligible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157339,"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":[2658,13125,12539],"class_list":["post-157531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-fikayo-tomori","tag-tammy-abraham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157531","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=157531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}