{"id":6115,"date":"2024-02-29T20:53:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/02\/29\/read_news-phpnid50638\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T20:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:53:18","slug":"read_news-phpnid50638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/02\/29\/read_news-phpnid50638\/","title":{"rendered":"New goalkeeping rival for Otega Ekperuoh as Chelsea loan out\u00a0Bergstrom to IF Brommapojkarna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/53253Otega.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"New goalkeeping rival for Otega Ekperuoh as Chelsea loan out\u00a0Bergstrom to IF Brommapojkarna\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dual national youngster Otega Ekperuoh\u00a0has a new goalkeeping rival at\u00a0IF Brommapojkarna\u00a0ahead of the forthcoming Allsvenskan\u00a0season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/new-contract-and-loan-for-bergstrom\" rel=\"noopener\">With a statement on their official website<\/a>, Chelsea announced on Thursday that\u00a0Finland international Lucas Bergstr\u00f6m signed a new contract keeping him at Stamford Bridge until 2025 and has been loaned out to Swedish top-flight club IF Brommapojkarna until January 1, 2025. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The temporary acquisition of\u00a0Bergstr\u00f6m could see Swedish-Nigerian glovesman\u00a0Ekperuoh fall down the pecking order of goalkeepers at\u00a0\u00a0IF Brommapojkarna.<\/p>\n<p>Last season,\u00a0Ekperuoh was third choice goalkeeper, behind\u00a0Filip Sidklev and Lucas H\u00e4gg Johansson, and was called up for six first team games but was a non-playing substitute on each occasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old signed a first team contact with\u00a0IF Brommapojkarna\u00a0in July 2022 before heading on loan to Division 2 club\u00a0Enskede IK for the remainder of the season to get a taste of senior football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ekperuoh joined\u00a0IF Brommapojkarna in 2016, rising through the youth team ranks before he was promoted to the first team.<\/p>\n<p>He has received several national team call ups for the Sweden-eligible players born in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea signed Lucas Bergstrom from Turun Palloseura during the 2018-2019 season and have included him in the matchday squad for first team games on 25 occasions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: bpfotboll.se<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All 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=50638\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dual national youngster Otega Ekperuoh\u00a0has a new goalkeeping rival at\u00a0IF Brommapojkarna\u00a0ahead of the forthcoming Allsvenskan\u00a0season.\u00a0 With a statement on their official website, Chelsea announced on Thursday that\u00a0Finland international Lucas Bergstr\u00f6m signed a new contract keeping him at Stamford Bridge until 2025 and has been loaned out to Swedish top-flight club IF Brommapojkarna until January 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6115","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\/6115","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=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}