{"id":6020,"date":"2024-02-24T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T13:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/02\/24\/read_news-phpnid50575\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T13:59:26","slug":"read_news-phpnid50575","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/02\/24\/read_news-phpnid50575\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea, Arsenal, Wolves players eligible for Golden Eaglets star as Young Lions beat Sweden\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/22001Asemota.png\" height=\"213\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Chelsea, Arsenal, Wolves players eligible for Golden Eaglets star as Young Lions beat Sweden\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three players eligible to represent the Golden Eaglets impressed for England as they sealed a comfortable 4-0 win over Sweden at the\u00a0U16 Federations Cup on Friday, February 23, <strong>allnigeriasoccer.com<\/strong> reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Young Lions boss Neil Ryan handed starts to Arsenal goalkeeper Owen Asemota, Chelsea winger Rio Ngumoha and Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Wesley Okoduwa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Okoduwa is the son of retired Nigeria international striker Emmanuel Okoduwa who wore the colours of Arsenal Kyiv and Dynamo Kyiv among others during his playing days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England U16s dominated proceedings and were rewarded for their efforts in the 38th minute when\u00a0Alejandro Gomes Rodriguez opened the scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And by the hour mark, it was game over with\u00a0Ryan McAidoo, Rio Ngumoha and Harrison Miles getting on the score sheet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ngumoha\u00a0is highly thought of by the powers that be at Chelsea, with manager\u00a0Mauricio Pochettino inviting him to train with the first team stars including Raheem Sterling before he reported for England duty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2008-born player has already made his debut for Chelsea U18s and development squad whilst still a schoolboy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal goalkeeper Asemota has been offered a scholarship for the 2024-2025 season but the likes of\u00a0likes of Tottenham, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Aston Villa are monitoring his situation.<\/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><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=50575\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three players eligible to represent the Golden Eaglets impressed for England as they sealed a comfortable 4-0 win over Sweden at the\u00a0U16 Federations Cup on Friday, February 23, allnigeriasoccer.com reports.\u00a0 \u00a0 Young Lions boss Neil Ryan handed starts to Arsenal goalkeeper Owen Asemota, Chelsea winger Rio Ngumoha and Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Wesley Okoduwa.\u00a0 \u00a0 Okoduwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6020","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\/6020","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=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}