{"id":406863,"date":"2021-10-20T08:49:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T07:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=406863"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T08:02:07","slug":"taribo-west-is-the-toughest-player-i-have-faced-in-my-career-thierry-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=406863","title":{"rendered":"Taribo West is the toughest player I have faced in my career &#8211; Thierry Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Arsenal and France captain, Thierry Henry has admitted that ex-Nigeria defender, Taribo West is the toughest player he has faced in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Henry revealed this while answering quick-fire questions on CBS Sports\u2019 In The Mixer, during Tuesday night\u2019s Champions League analysis.<\/p>\n<p>When asked the toughest player he has faced, the Frenchman replied: \u201cToughest as in direct opponent? Or just a guy you hated to play against?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old was asked to name both. And he replied: \u201cPaul Scholes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor direct opponent, I would go back in the days and say Taribo West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause (at Auxerre), they did man-marking. He followed you everywhere, even in the dressing room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Henry was asked which player he enjoyed playing alongside, he replied: \u201cDennis Bergkamp\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Henry came up against West while he played for Monaco.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal and France captain, Thierry Henry has admitted that ex-Nigeria defender, Taribo West is the toughest player he has faced in his career. Henry revealed this while answering quick-fire questions on CBS Sports\u2019 In The Mixer, during Tuesday night\u2019s Champions League analysis. When asked the toughest player he has faced, the Frenchman replied: \u201cToughest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406864,"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":[2658,13343],"class_list":["post-406863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-taribo-west"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406863","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=406863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}