{"id":2409,"date":"2023-07-03T03:32:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T02:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/03\/read_news-phpnid47952\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T03:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T02:32:36","slug":"read_news-phpnid47952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/03\/read_news-phpnid47952\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Barcelona, Milan and Bayern star\u00a0runs the rule over 18yo Antwerp striker Udoh\u00a0:: All Nigeria Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/58848Udoh.png\" height=\"227\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Ex-Barcelona, Milan and Bayern star\u00a0runs the rule over 18yo Antwerp striker Udoh\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Teenage Nigerian striker Victor Udoh has been promoted to first team training at Belgian Pro League champions Royal Antwerp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Barcelona, AC Milan and Bayern Munich defensive midfielder\u00a0Mark van Bommel\u00a0has been running the rule over the Nigerian teenager in pre-season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mark van Bommel\u00a0gave Udoh minutes in Royal Antwerp&#8217;s first pre-season friendly against\u00a0Challenger Pro League side Lierse\u00a0on Saturday, bringing him on for the start of the second half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old attacker had a huge opportunity to open the scoring in the 49th minute but unfortunately could not slot past the Lierse goalkeeper after finding himself in a 1v1 situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Udoh joined Antwerp at the end of March and has been elevated to the first team for pre-season preparations on the back of his impressive performances for the youth team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Royal Antwerp, he turned out for\u00a0TBC Football Club and Hypebuzz FC in his homeland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Udoh\u00a0faces a tough task displacing former Tottenham Hotspur and Fenerbahce star\u00a0Vincent Janssen as Antwerp&#8217;s first choice striker should he remain with the first team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Antwerp have also acquired talented 16-year-old striker of Nigerian descent\u00a0George Ilenikhena, who scored twenty minutes into his debut against Lierse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: royalantwerpfc.be<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAll rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from allnigeriasoccer.com<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=47952\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage Nigerian striker Victor Udoh has been promoted to first team training at Belgian Pro League champions Royal Antwerp.\u00a0 \u00a0 Former Barcelona, AC Milan and Bayern Munich defensive midfielder\u00a0Mark van Bommel\u00a0has been running the rule over the Nigerian teenager in pre-season.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mark van Bommel\u00a0gave Udoh minutes in Royal Antwerp&#8217;s first pre-season friendly against\u00a0Challenger Pro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}