{"id":172073,"date":"2019-12-01T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172073"},"modified":"2019-12-01T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T12:47:19","slug":"epl-nigerian-striker-leaves-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=172073","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Nigerian striker leaves Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/EPL-Nigerian-striker-leaves-Chelsea.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigerian player, Adrian Akande has left English Premier League side Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The club did not offer a scholarship to the highly-rated winger.<\/p>\n<p>The U17 invitee had made it clear that he was not interested in extending his stay at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the Golden Eaglets squad to the 2019 U17 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Chelsea from another London club, Crystal Palace at the age of twelve.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old has already trained with West Ham, Glasgow Rangers and German Bundesliga club Hoffenheim in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian made his debut in the Premier League 2 against Newcastle United in August 2019 at the age of 15.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian player, Adrian Akande has left English Premier League side Chelsea. The club did not offer a scholarship to the highly-rated winger. The U17 invitee had made it clear that he was not interested in extending his stay at Stamford Bridge. He was a member of the Golden Eaglets squad to the 2019 U17 Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172074,"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":[2658,13712,1397],"class_list":["post-172073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-adrian-akande","tag-chelsea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172073","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=172073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}