{"id":191398,"date":"2020-02-05T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191398"},"modified":"2020-02-05T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:25:33","slug":"epl-ighalo-reveals-who-motivated-him-to-pick-manchester-uniteds-shirt-no-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191398","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Ighalo reveals who motivated him to pick Manchester United&#8217;s shirt No.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">New Manchester United attacker, Odion Ighalo, has revealed why he chose the shirt No.25 at the club.<\/p>\n<p>The former Super Eagles striker joined the Red Devils on a temporary basis from the Chinese side Shanghai Greenland Shenhua.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to boost the squad for the rest of the 2019\/20 season.<\/p>\n<p>Ighalo revealed his thinking when presented with a list of squad numbers that were available for selection to Manchester United\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think that number and number 19 were available,\u201d says 30-year-old Odion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was at Watford I wore the number 24 and it was not available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Shanghai, I had number nine and that was not available. So I said to myself that 24 plus one is 25, so I said \u2018okay let me go with the number 25 instead of 19\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian said he followed the footsteps of United\u2019s first-ever African player, Quinton Fortune, who wore the number 25 shirt during his six seasons at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, because I watched Quinton Fortune play for Man United, he was a great player and I know he put on the number 25, so I said to myself that number 25 is good,\u201d Odion explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I didn\u2019t get the number that I was looking for, 25 is a perfect number because it is one above the number that I wore when I was in the Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ighalo will be hoping to play his first match for Manchester United when they file out against Chelsea in their next Premier League game.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Manchester United attacker, Odion Ighalo, has revealed why he chose the shirt No.25 at the club. The former Super Eagles striker joined the Red Devils on a temporary basis from the Chinese side Shanghai Greenland Shenhua. He is expected to boost the squad for the rest of the 2019\/20 season. Ighalo revealed his thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191399,"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":[3367,1406,12513,9023],"class_list":["post-191398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-liverpool","tag-manchester-united","tag-odion-ighalo","tag-solksjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191398","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=191398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}