{"id":162879,"date":"2019-10-25T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T09:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=162879"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T09:12:47","slug":"england-fa-moves-to-take-nigerian-defender-balogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=162879","title":{"rendered":"England FA moves to take Nigerian defender, Balogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/England-FA-moves-to-take-Nigerian-defender-Balogun.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">England is in the move to cap Nigerian-born Manchester United starlet, Hamzat Balogun, according to All Nigeria Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Balogun will be attending an England U-15 camping exercise after receiving a call up from manager Lee Skyrme.<\/p>\n<p>The player has been described as a hard-tackling versatile defender who can play across the defending line: left-back, right-back, and central defense.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster has been a revelation for the youth team of Manchester United and featured for the club in this year\u2019s edition of the Mediterranean International Cup in Spain, a tourney considered the most prestigious in youth football in the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The young defender has maintained an upward trajectory in the Red Devils\u2019 youth sides and could be promoted to the U18 team in the coming seasons.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England is in the move to cap Nigerian-born Manchester United starlet, Hamzat Balogun, according to All Nigeria Soccer. Balogun will be attending an England U-15 camping exercise after receiving a call up from manager Lee Skyrme. The player has been described as a hard-tackling versatile defender who can play across the defending line: left-back, right-back, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162880,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,13480],"class_list":["post-162879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-hamzat-balogun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162879","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=162879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}