{"id":3898,"date":"2023-10-18T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/18\/read_news-phpnid49165\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T12:58:11","slug":"read_news-phpnid49165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/18\/read_news-phpnid49165\/","title":{"rendered":"History-maker: Tottenham&#8217;s Nigeria-eligible LB Udogie enters the record books after debut for Italy\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\/90953Udogie.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"History-maker: Tottenham's Nigeria-eligible LB Udogie enters the record books after debut for Italy\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s Nigeria-eligible defender Destiny Udogie\u00a0entered the record books after making his debut for Italy&#8217;s national team in a 2024 European Championship qualifying match against Malta this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Udogie made his first appearance for the four-time world champions when he came off the bench to replace\u00a0Federico Dimarco in the 79th minute of the contest at the\u00a0Stadio Comunale San Nicola (Bari) on October 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=720851160083686&amp;set=a.450431380459000&amp;locale=it_IT\" rel=\"noopener\">official Facebook page of the Municipality of Nogara,<\/a> Udogie\u00a0is the first Nogarese in history to debut in Italy&#8217;s senior national team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the versatile defender was born in Verona, his Nigerian father and mother arrived in Italy in the 1990s and settled in Nogara.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Udogie spent his formative years as a footballer, playing for\u00a0Circolo Noi football school in Nogara where he was coached by\u00a0Stefano Grespan, before joining Verona at the age of ten.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is widely regarded as one of the best young left-backs in the Premier League, holding his own against Manchester United&#8217;s Antony and Liverpool&#8217;s Mohamed Salah, and performed admirably in the second half of Tottenham&#8217;s 2-2 draw with Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Udogie is now two games away from being cap-tied to Italy after making his second appearance\u00a0for the\u00a0gli Azzurri\u00a0in their 3-1 loss to England in a 2024 Euro qualifier on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On his full debut for the Italians, Udogie was replaced in the 63rd minute with England leading 2-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/football_pics\/21113nogara.png\" style=\"height:279px; width:300px\" \/><\/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>Photo Credit: figc.it<\/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=49165\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s Nigeria-eligible defender Destiny Udogie\u00a0entered the record books after making his debut for Italy&#8217;s national team in a 2024 European Championship qualifying match against Malta this past weekend. \u00a0 Udogie made his first appearance for the four-time world champions when he came off the bench to replace\u00a0Federico Dimarco in the 79th minute of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3898","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\/3898","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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}