{"id":2544,"date":"2023-07-24T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/24\/read_news-phpnid48194\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:53:05","slug":"read_news-phpnid48194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/24\/read_news-phpnid48194\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: St.Gallen sign Nigeria&#8217;s Dream Team VI invitee who learned his trade at Bayern:: 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\/74923Okoroji.png\" height=\"161\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Official: St.Gallen sign Nigeria's Dream Team VI invitee who learned his trade at Bayern\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a statement on their<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsg.ch\/home\/redaktionsbaum\/1--mannschaft\/20230722-okoroji-zum-fcsg\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> official website<\/a>, Swiss Super League side\u00a0FC St. Gallen have announced the signing of Nigeria&#8217;s Dream Team VI invitee Chima Okoroji.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Born in Munich, Germany to an English mother and Nigerian father, Okoroji was among the foreign-based young stars called up to a Nigeria U23 training\u00a0camp in Abuja in December 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The defender who last played for\u00a0SV Sandhausen has put pen to paper on a two-year deal with St. Gallen, until the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Okoroji started his career at TSV Gr\u00fcnwald before joining the youth team of Bayern Munich where he spent a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The left-back transferred to SC Freiburg in the summer of 2018 and enjoyed loan spells at\u00a0\u00a0Jahn Regensburg and SC Paderborn during hist time with the Bundesliga club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is credited with two appearances in the German Bundesliga and played in 101 games combined for three different clubs in the 2.Bundesliga.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With his experience from over 100 games in the second Bundesliga, Chima can perfectly complement our left-back. We are happy to welcome Chima to our team,&#8221; St. Gallen&#8217;s Head of Sport, Alain Sutter said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Okoroji\u00a0has been assigned the number 36 jersey at St. Gallen for the 2023-2024 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: fcsg.ch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=48194\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a statement on their official website, Swiss Super League side\u00a0FC St. Gallen have announced the signing of Nigeria&#8217;s Dream Team VI invitee Chima Okoroji.\u00a0 \u00a0 Born in Munich, Germany to an English mother and Nigerian father, Okoroji was among the foreign-based young stars called up to a Nigeria U23 training\u00a0camp in Abuja in December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","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\/2544","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=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}