{"id":164652,"date":"2019-11-01T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164652"},"modified":"2019-11-01T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:04:55","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-defender-chooses-nigeria-over-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164652","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur defender chooses Nigeria over England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Tottenham-Hotspur-sign-first-player-in-18-months.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is in prime position to secure the services of Tottenham Hotspur defender, Jubril Okedina, after he pledged his international future to the three-time African champions, AllNigeriaSoccer reports.<\/p>\n<p>Born in London to Nigerian parents, Okedina is also eligible represent England internationally, despite not having any caps for the Young Lions.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the center back\u2019s camp has opened a line of communication with the NFF Vice President, Seyi Akinwunmi, about the Spurs starlet playing for the Nigeria youth teams and those talks were fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old would have been considered for Nigeria\u2019s U23 team that headed to Egypt on Thursday, but coach Imama Amapakabo had already finalized his roster.<\/p>\n<p>Okedina, who can also play at right-back, signed a one-year professional contract with Tottenham Hotspur in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>He has been involved in all but one of the matches in the Premier League 2 this season.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is in prime position to secure the services of Tottenham Hotspur defender, Jubril Okedina, after he pledged his international future to the three-time African champions, AllNigeriaSoccer reports. Born in London to Nigerian parents, Okedina is also eligible represent England internationally, despite not having any caps for the Young Lions. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132323,"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":[2658,13516,243,5319],"class_list":["post-164652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-jubril-okedina","tag-nigeria","tag-tottenham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164652","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=164652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}