{"id":63157,"date":"2018-11-20T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63157"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:10:06","slug":"ademola-lookman-snubs-super-eagles-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63157","title":{"rendered":"Ademola Lookman snubs Super Eagles for England"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ademola Lookman has pledged his international allegiance to England, after holding face-to-face talks with Under-21 head coach, Aidy Boothroyd, over persistent stories linking him with Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The Everton winger was part of the Under-20 squad that won the World Cup in 2017 and is expected to play for the Under-21 next summer in Italy during the Euro 2019.<\/p>\n

However, Lookman has been the subject of concerted interest from Nigeria, whose manager Gernot Rohr is preparing for next year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n

Three weeks ago, Rohr said that the Everton player \u201cwanted to change his mind so he can play for us as he will add something to our team\u201d.<\/p>\n

Boothroyd spoke with Lookman, 21, at St George\u2019s Park last week and has been assured that he is committed to representing England.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I see him I have a little joke with him about it,\u201d said Boothroyd whose side face Denmark in a friendly on Tuesday evening. \u201cI say: \u201cWhy would you want to leave us,\u201d Boothroyd told dailymail.co.uk.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he\u2019s very focused on England \u2013 that\u2019s what he tells me. He says he wants to play international football for England.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ademola Lookman has pledged his international allegiance to England, after holding face-to-face talks with Under-21 head coach, Aidy Boothroyd, over persistent stories linking him with Nigeria. The Everton winger was part of the Under-20 squad that won the World Cup in 2017 and is expected to play for the Under-21 next summer in Italy during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43273,"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":[8064,928,7480,4046],"class_list":["post-63157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ademola-lookman","tag-england","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157","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=63157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}