{"id":23961,"date":"2018-08-07T18:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/?p=23961"},"modified":"2018-08-07T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:59:16","slug":"rohr-pens-very-good-striker-for-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/rohr-pens-very-good-striker-for-super-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohr pens very good striker for Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Super Eagles manager Gernot Rohr has confirmed that FK Ventspils striker Adeleke Akinyemi may be handed a maiden call-up to the Nigeria National Team for next month’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Seychelles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The German football tactician observed the 19-year-old at close quarters in FK Ventspils’ 2-1 loss to Bordeaux in the Europa League qualifiers last Thursday and was impressed by his qualities after scoring his 20th goal of the season against a very competitive opponent.<\/p>\n

”I just discovered the player because he has not been in Europe for long. He left directly from an academy, not a club, in Nigeria,” Rohr told girondins4ever.com<\/p>\n

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”He has not featured for the Nigerian youth teams or the Nigerian League. I saw his statistics, and I thought I had to look at him.<\/p>\n

”And indeed, he was good. He has qualities, I may invite him one of these days, perhaps for the next game. I like him.”<\/p>\n

Gernot Rohr was associated with Bordeaux for 21 years, 12 as a player and 9 in different functions including manager, and he has recommended that the Ligue 1 club should make a move for Akinyemi.<\/p>\n

”They watched the game, monitored him. That means they take him very seriously. I think it would be worth it to recruit him, downright. I think so personally.<\/p>\n

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”He is a player who is very young, who does not cost much. He certainly has a huge room for improvement. He is powerful, he gets inside, he scores goals. It’s still rare to have all these qualities,” Rohr added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Eagles manager Gernot Rohr has confirmed that FK Ventspils striker Adeleke Akinyemi may be handed a maiden call-up to the Nigeria National Team for next month’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Seychelles. The German football tactician observed the 19-year-old at close quarters in FK Ventspils’ 2-1 loss to Bordeaux in the Europa League […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84,3],"tags":[3744,1259,3743,343,80,3712,194],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Adeleke-Akinyemi.jpg?fit=450%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd18y-6et","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}