{"id":11871,"date":"2023-02-06T00:32:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2023-02-06T00:32:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T00:32:44","slug":"obafemi-martins-son-signs-contract-with-italian-club-monza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11871","title":{"rendered":"Obafemi Martins\u2019 Son Signs Contract With Italian Club Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Retired Super Eagles striker\u00a0Obafemi Martins\u2019 son Kevin Mauss- Martins, has signed his first professional contract at Italian Serie A club Monza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kevin\u2019s father Obafemi Martins had an excellent career. He played in the Serie A for Inter Milan, in the Premier League for Newcastle United, in the La Liga with Levante, Bundesliga with Wolfsburg before moving to the United States of America and China in the twilight of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kevin, who operates as an attacker joined the AC Milan academy before switching to Inter Milan in 2018. He then rose the ranks before switching to Monza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Naija Footballers reports that despite his father\u2019s nationality, Kevin has played for the Italian under-15 team and has a goal to his name after three games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kevin can still switch to play for Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Saturday,\u00a0Monza announced\u00a0that Kevin had signed his first professional contract at the club which will last till June 2024, and Martins took to social media to share his excitement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCongratulations my son, I\u2019m so proud of you. I wish you a long and successful career at Monza,\u201d\u00a0Martins wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Super Eagles striker Obafemi Martins\u2019 son Kevin Mauss- Martins, has signed his first professional contract at Italian Serie A club Monza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6416,6417,6415],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-italian-club","tag-monza","tag-obafemi-martins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871"}],"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=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11873,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/11873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}