{"id":164936,"date":"2019-11-02T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164936"},"modified":"2019-11-02T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T13:15:05","slug":"rohr-approaches-qpr-midfielder-to-play-for-nigeria-over-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164936","title":{"rendered":"Rohr approaches QPR midfielder to play for Nigeria over England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nigeria-vs-Algeria-Rohr-reveals-favourites-to-win-AFCON-2019.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles\u2019 head coach, Gernot Rohr, has approached Queens Park Rangers midfielder, Eberechi Eze to play for Nigeria over England.<\/p>\n<p>Eze, who was born in England, is eligible to represent the Three Lions and also Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has scored six goals and registered four assists for QPR in the Championship so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe have approached him, but not directly. Tunde Adelakun, my assistant, spoke to his mum,\u201d Rohr was quoted by Allnigeriasoccer as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWhat we understand is that there is a lot of pressure on him and Ebere Eze doesn\u2019t want to give an answer now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dObviously, we would love to have him in the Super Eagles, of course! We continue to work on getting him. It may take some time\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles\u2019 head coach, Gernot Rohr, has approached Queens Park Rangers midfielder, Eberechi Eze to play for Nigeria over England. Eze, who was born in England, is eligible to represent the Three Lions and also Nigeria. The 21-year-old has scored six goals and registered four assists for QPR in the Championship so far this season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163432,"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":[2658,13517,7480],"class_list":["post-164936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ebere-eze","tag-gernot-rohr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164936","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=164936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}