{"id":157744,"date":"2019-10-05T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157744"},"modified":"2019-10-05T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:28:16","slug":"southampton-vs-chelsea-lampard-confirms-his-vice-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157744","title":{"rendered":"Southampton vs Chelsea: Lampard confirms his vice-captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EPL-Lampard-identifies-first-player-he\u2019ll-sign-to-Chelsea-after-transfer-ban.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has praised the influence of Chelsea midfielder Jorginho on and off the pitch and has confirmed that the Italian is the club\u2019s vice-captain behind Cesar Azpilicueta.<\/p>\n<p>Jorginho has won over fans playing under Lampard, after enduring a turbulent time under Maurizio Sarri last season.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the 27-year-old has now assumed the role of vice-captain, Lampard told reporters on Friday: \u201cYes, Jorginho is vice-captain as it stands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAzpi [Azpilicueta] is captain, that was clear at the start of the season, and I think his professionalism and his career here speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Jorginho, I keep talking about him as a character, and he\u2019s a driver. I think it\u2019s very evident to see on the pitch. So that\u2019s the situation as it stands.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has praised the influence of Chelsea midfielder Jorginho on and off the pitch and has confirmed that the Italian is the club\u2019s vice-captain behind Cesar Azpilicueta. Jorginho has won over fans playing under Lampard, after enduring a turbulent time under Maurizio Sarri last season. Asked if the 27-year-old has now assumed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143061,"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],"class_list":["post-157744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157744","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=157744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}