{"id":61190,"date":"2018-11-14T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=61190"},"modified":"2018-11-14T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:08:38","slug":"jay-jay-okocha-better-than-cristano-ronaldo-messi-samuel-allardyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=61190","title":{"rendered":"Jay Jay Okocha better than Cristano Ronaldo, Messi \u2013 Samuel Allardyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sam-allardyce-crystal-palace_3961166.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Samuel Allardyce, former Bolton Wanderers manager has rated ex-Super Eagles of Nigeria\u2019s captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha above Portuguese and Juventus star, Cristano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Allardyce said in the current generation of footballers, there has never been a player like Okocha.<\/p>\n<p>Okocha joined Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer after leaving PSG in the summer of 2002 after the FIFA World Cup while Allardyce was in charge of the English side.<\/p>\n<p>He steered the team away from relegation with seven goals, including the team Goal of the Season in the vital league win against West Ham United same year.<\/p>\n<p>Allardyce in his new book entitled Big Sam\u2019s Autobiography said he could watch the ex-Super Eagles star play all day.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cI love Jay-Jay\u2019s tricks on the ball, I could watch him all day\u2026 He could do drag-backs, flick-overs, double step-overs, there\u2019s been no else like him, not even Cristiano Ronaldo.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Allardyce, former Bolton Wanderers manager has rated ex-Super Eagles of Nigeria\u2019s captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha above Portuguese and Juventus star, Cristano Ronaldo. Allardyce said in the current generation of footballers, there has never been a player like Okocha. Okocha joined Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer after leaving PSG in the summer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22398,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7775,4046],"class_list":["post-61190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jay-jay-okocha","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61190","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=61190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}