{"id":1073,"date":"2018-06-12T05:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T05:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2018-06-12T05:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T05:35:24","slug":"nigeria-midfielder-etebo-joins-stoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Midfielder, Etebo Joins Stoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo took a break from his World Cup preparations to join English Championship club Stoke on Monday,\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>Etebo will be a member of the Nigeria squad when the World Cup gets underway in Russia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old is free to concentrate on his international commitments after leaving Portuguese side Feirense in a \u00a36.35m\u00a0 switch to second tier Stoke.<\/p>\n<p>Etebo agreed a five-year contract with Stoke, who were relegated from the Premier League in May and are hoping to win promotion from the Championship next season under new boss Gary Rowett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to have got the deal over the line for Etebo. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing him in a Stoke City shirt as I\u2019m sure our supporters are too,\u201d Rowett said.<\/p>\n<p>Etebo spent the second half of last season on loan with Las Palmas in La Liga and will link up with his new Stoke team-mates after the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He has been capped 14 times by Nigeria and came on as a substitute in last week\u2019s friendly defeat against England at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria face Argentina, Iceland and Croatia in the group stage of the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo took a break from his World Cup preparations to join English Championship club Stoke on Monday,\u00a0AFP\u00a0reports. Etebo will be a member of the Nigeria squad when the World Cup gets underway in Russia on Thursday. The 22-year-old is free to concentrate on his international commitments after leaving Portuguese side Feirense in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[811,901,586,905,900,92,902,904,903,857],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-england","tag-etebo","tag-la-liga","tag-las-palmas","tag-midfielder","tag-nigeria","tag-stoke","tag-stoke-city","tag-wembley","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}