{"id":6945,"date":"2025-10-11T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2025\/10\/11\/a-proud-father-moment-17-year-old-chizzy-ezenwata-shines-for-england-u18-as-dad-watches-on-at-st-georges-park\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:43:53","slug":"a-proud-father-moment-17-year-old-chizzy-ezenwata-shines-for-england-u18-as-dad-watches-on-at-st-georges-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2025\/10\/11\/a-proud-father-moment-17-year-old-chizzy-ezenwata-shines-for-england-u18-as-dad-watches-on-at-st-georges-park\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Proud Father Moment\u201d \u2013 17-Year-Old Chizzy Ezenwata Shines For England U18 As Dad Watches On At St. George\u2019s Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-11-at-3.19.01-PM.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was a special day for 17-year-old Chizzy Ezenwata, as the Chelsea U18 striker enjoyed a proud moment in front of his father at St. George\u2019s Park, England, during England U18\u2019s 1\u20130 victory over France U18 in an international friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Ezenwata, who continues to impress at youth level for both club and country, delivered a lively and disciplined performance, causing constant problems for the French defense with his intelligent movement, pace, and attacking instinct.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read Also: Meet <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/meet-elochukwu-toney-ebonyis-electrifying-left-winger-lighting-up-nok-fc\/\"><strong>Elochukwu Toney \u2013 Ebonyi\u2019s Electrifying Left Winger Lighting Up NOK FC<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>While he didn\u2019t get on the scoresheet, his work rate, pressing, and link-up play drew praise from coaches and spectators alike, highlighting the qualities that have made him one of the most exciting young forwards in Chelsea\u2019s academy setup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a proud moment seeing my dad in the stands,\u201d Chizzy shared after the match. \u201cIt motivates me to keep working harder and keep improving every game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The talented striker, who has Nigerian heritage, continues to develop rapidly within England\u2019s youth system, with many seeing him as a player with the potential to make an impact at senior level in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"\/> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Post Views:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">79<\/span>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/a-proud-father-moment-17-year-old-chizzy-ezenwata-shines-for-england-u18-as-dad-watches-on-at-st-georges-park\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a special day for 17-year-old Chizzy Ezenwata, as the Chelsea U18 striker enjoyed a proud moment in front of his father at St. George\u2019s Park, England, during England U18\u2019s 1\u20130 victory over France U18 in an international friendly. Ezenwata, who continues to impress at youth level for both club and country, delivered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6945","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\/6945","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=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6947,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}