{"id":4580,"date":"2023-12-01T06:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T05:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/12\/01\/read_news-phpnid49628\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T05:27:40","slug":"read_news-phpnid49628","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/12\/01\/read_news-phpnid49628\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria-eligible winger who trained with Chelsea first team this month nominated\u00a0for Goal of the Month again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/15970George.png\" height=\"231\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Nigeria-eligible winger who trained with Chelsea first team this month nominated\u00a0for Goal of the Month again\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>England youth international of Nigerian descent Tyrique George has been nominated for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/vote-for-your-november-goal-of-the-month\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea&#8217;s Goal of the Month award<\/a> for the second consecutive month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The talented winger has been shortlisted for the November award\u00a0following his strike against Blackburn Rovers in the U18 Premier League Cup. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George is the only academy player nominated for the November prize and the five other contenders for the award include Raheem Sterling, who has been double nominated,\u00a0Thiago Silva, \u00a0Sam Kerr, Lauren James and Aggie Beever-Jones\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Against Blackburn Rovers, George fired into the top corner in the 80th minute to put the game out of the reach of the visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old was nominated for the October prize but missed out on the award to Ukrainian winger Mykhailo Mudryk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>George has been one of the standout players for Chelsea&#8217;s youth teams in the 2023-2024 campaign with nine goals in all competitions so far this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of his goals reveals that four were scored in the U18 Premier League, three in the U21 Premier League Cup and one each in the U18 Premier League Cup and Premier League International Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was promoted to first team training by Chelsea head coach\u00a0Mauricio Pochettino during the international break in November on the back of his excellent form for the youth teams.\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>&#13;<br \/>\n<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=49628\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England youth international of Nigerian descent Tyrique George has been nominated for Chelsea&#8217;s Goal of the Month award for the second consecutive month.\u00a0 \u00a0 The talented winger has been shortlisted for the November award\u00a0following his strike against Blackburn Rovers in the U18 Premier League Cup. \u00a0 \u00a0 George is the only academy player nominated for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","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\/4580","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=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}