{"id":3799,"date":"2023-10-11T22:28:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/11\/read_news-phpnid49095\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:28:51","slug":"read_news-phpnid49095","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/11\/read_news-phpnid49095\/","title":{"rendered":"Moffi battles ex-Chelsea star, former Ajax GK\u00a0for UNFP Player of the Month for September:: 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\/62147Moffi.png\" height=\"235\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Moffi battles ex-Chelsea star, former Ajax GK\u00a0for UNFP Player of the Month for September\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OGC Nice striker Terem Moffi is in the running for the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tropheesunfp.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels Player of the Month for September 2023<\/a> &#8211; an award that recognizes the best Ligue 1 player each month of the season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moffi has been shortlisted for the award alongside former Chelsea goalkeeper\u00a0Marcin Bu\u0142ka\u00a0(OGC Nice)\u00a0and Ajax-reared glovesman\u00a0Marco Bizot (Stade Brestois).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having fired blanks in his first three games of the 2023-2024 season, the Nigeria international was in red-hot form in September, scoring three goals and registering an assist in three matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moffi netted a brilliant goal against Strasbourg on September 3 before scoring a brace in Nice&#8217;s impressive 3-2 road win against Paris Saint-Germain on September 15, in a match where he also delivered an assist to Ga\u00ebtan Laborde.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OGC Nice won all the three Ligue 1 matches they played last month with their number 9 logging 248 minutes in total.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moffi is aiming to follow in the footsteps of\u00a0John Utaka (February 2006), Vincent Enyeama (October and November 2013) and Victor Osimhen (September 2019) who have all won the UNFP Player of the Month award in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Lorient man has reported for international duty in Portugal ahead of Nigeria&#8217;s upcoming friendlies against Saudi Arabia and Mozambique.<\/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><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=49095\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OGC Nice striker Terem Moffi is in the running for the\u00a0Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels Player of the Month for September 2023 &#8211; an award that recognizes the best Ligue 1 player each month of the season.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Moffi has been shortlisted for the award alongside former Chelsea goalkeeper\u00a0Marcin Bu\u0142ka\u00a0(OGC Nice)\u00a0and Ajax-reared glovesman\u00a0Marco Bizot (Stade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3799","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\/3799","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=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}