{"id":5077,"date":"2023-12-28T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/12\/28\/read_news-phpnid49926\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T12:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T11:39:19","slug":"read_news-phpnid49926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/12\/28\/read_news-phpnid49926\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly-rated African midfielder joins Chelsea with effect from June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/6833Diong.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Highly-rated African midfielder joins Chelsea with effect from June 2024\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Teenage African midfielder\u00a0Pape Daouda Diong will become a player of Chelsea when he attains the age of majority in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Italian transfer market reporter Fabrizio Romano posted on social media on Thursday morning that\u00a0Chelsea have &#8216;completed a deal&#8217; to sign Senegal U17 midfielder Pape Daouda Diong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Diong is set to become the second Senegalese player signed by Chelsea since the start of the 2023-2024 season, after former Villarreal forward Nicolas Jackson who landed at Stamford Bridge in the summer transfer window.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the name doesn&#8217;t ring any bells, the\u00a0AF Darou Salam\u00a0starlet was a key member of the Senegal team that reached the round of 16 of last month&#8217;s Fifa U17 World Cup, where he started matches against Argentina, Poland and France.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Standing at an impressive height of 1.90 meters, the Dakar native was the player with the highest percentage (85.2%) of defensive duels won in the group stage of the World Cup, according to Wyscout.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Diong\u00a0was photographed last Tuesday at Stamford Bridge during the Carabao Cup quarterfinal clash between Chelsea and Newcastle United, in the company of Kendry P\u00e1ez.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be loaned out to Strasbourg next June, a club owned by BluCo, the consortium that purchased Chelsea in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embeddedContent oembed-provider- oembed-provider-twitter\" data-align=\"none\" data-oembed=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1740285203967250923\" data-oembed_provider=\"twitter\" data-resizetype=\"noresize\" data-title=\"m\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 Chelsea have completed deal to sign Senegal U17 midfielder Pape Daouda Diong, as revealed two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 2006, Pape will turn 18 in the summer and he will become part of Chelsea project. \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3<\/p>\n<p>Diong was at Stamford Bridge just two week ago. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/81S4LQsE3T\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/81S4LQsE3T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1740285203967250923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Igho Kingsley<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=49926\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage African midfielder\u00a0Pape Daouda Diong will become a player of Chelsea when he attains the age of majority in June 2024. \u00a0 Italian transfer market reporter Fabrizio Romano posted on social media on Thursday morning that\u00a0Chelsea have &#8216;completed a deal&#8217; 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