{"id":6594,"date":"2024-03-27T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/03\/27\/read_news-phpnid50963\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T19:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:22:27","slug":"read_news-phpnid50963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/03\/27\/read_news-phpnid50963\/","title":{"rendered":"Nwaneri\u00a0continues scoring streak\u00a0for Young Lions, Arsenal teammate Obi-Martin nets in Denmark&#8217;s big win\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/86420Chido.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Nwaneri\u00a0continues scoring streak\u00a0for Young Lions, Arsenal teammate Obi-Martin nets in Denmark's big win\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal starlets Ethan Nwaneri and Chidozie Obi-Martin found the net on Tuesday as their respective nations qualified for the 2024 European U17 Championship, <strong>allnigeriasoccer.com<\/strong> reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nwaneri was in brilliant form during the last international break of the season, netting in three consecutive matches for the Young Lions.<\/p>\n<p>The attacking midfielder, who recently celebrated his 17th birthday, was on target against Northern Ireland (March 20) and Hungary (March 23)before yesterday&#8217;s meeting against France at\u00a0St George&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n<p>With England playing with ten men following the dismissal of captain Chris Rigg, France exploited their numerical advantage and were 2-0 up at the interval thanks to a brace from their number 9 Messi Tanfouri.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes from time, Nwaneri pulled one back when he\u00a0controlled the ball with his chest before finding the bottom corner with a left-footed finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the Hale End Academy graduate took his tally to twelve for England&#8217;s U17 national teams after 24 appearances for the age group , an average of a goal every two games.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the U17 Euro elite qualifying round, Chidozie Obi-Martin helped Denmark register a convincing 7-0 win against\u00a0Georgia at Ramaz Shengelia Stadium Kutaisi.<\/p>\n<p>The talented center forward broke the deadlock at the midway point of the first half after he was teed up by\u00a0Silkeborg fullback Simon St\u00fcker.<\/p>\n<p>Obi-Martin now has nine goals in thirteen appearances at Denmark at U17 level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen teams will participate in the 2024 European U17 Championship, which will be held in Cyprus from May 18 to June 5 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><br \/>&#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=50963\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal starlets Ethan Nwaneri and Chidozie Obi-Martin found the net on Tuesday as their respective nations qualified for the 2024 European U17 Championship, allnigeriasoccer.com reports.\u00a0 Nwaneri was in brilliant form during the last international break of the season, netting in three consecutive matches for the Young Lions. The attacking midfielder, who recently celebrated his 17th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6594","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\/6594","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=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}