{"id":3696,"date":"2023-10-04T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/04\/read_news-phpnid49025\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:39:06","slug":"read_news-phpnid49025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/04\/read_news-phpnid49025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwobi battles ex-Chelsea schoolboy Nwoko, seven others for Fulham Goal of the Month for September\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\/99792Iwobi1.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Iwobi battles ex-Chelsea schoolboy Nwoko, seven others for Fulham Goal of the Month for September\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles playmaker Alex Iwobi and former Chelsea schoolboy Chibuzor Nwoko are among the nominees for<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fulhamfc.com\/news\/2023\/october\/03\/goal-of-the-month-vote-september\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fulham&#8217;s Goal of the Month award for September 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Arsenal-reared player has been nominated for his brilliant strike against Norwich City in the third round of the Carabao Cup on September 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In what was his starting debut for the Cottagers, the Nigeria international scored a crucial second goal in the 72nd minute when he slotted into the bottom corner after he was played in by Harry Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nwoko netted in the 18th minute of Fulham&#8217;s 3-1 win against his former employer Chelsea in an U18 Premier League fixture staged at Cobham Training Ground on September 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The England U18 international\u00a0rifled an effort from far out into the top right corner to give the Cottagers a two-goal advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In their bid to win the award, the two players of Nigerian descent face competition from seven other players, namely\u00a0Ollie O&#8217; Neill who has been triple-nominated,\u00a0Lilly Lambird,\u00a0Tia Foreman,\u00a0Callum Osmand,\u00a0Madi Parsonson,\u00a0Matt Dibley-Dias and\u00a0Callum McFarlane.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi joined Fulham on deadline day, signing a five-year deal that will keep him at Craven Cottage until the end of the 2027-2028 season, while central midfielder Nwoko\u00a0has been with Fulham since U12 level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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=49025\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles playmaker Alex Iwobi and former Chelsea schoolboy Chibuzor Nwoko are among the nominees for Fulham&#8217;s Goal of the Month award for September 2023. \u00a0 The Arsenal-reared player has been nominated for his brilliant strike against Norwich City in the third round of the Carabao Cup on September 27. \u00a0 In what was his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","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\/3696","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=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}