{"id":16264,"date":"2024-01-24T13:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16264"},"modified":"2024-01-24T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:47:41","slug":"2023-afcon-ekong-to-resume-training-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/24\/2023-afcon-ekong-to-resume-training-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 AFCON: Ekong To Resume Training On Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injured Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles assistant captain William Troost Ekong is set to be back in the team training on Wednesday, BSNSports.com.ng reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Greece-based defender missed the team&#8217;s last match against Guinea-Bissau due to a knee injury and some certain believe the lanky defender may not be able to play again<\/p>\n<p>Ekong revealed that he will be back in the team training on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not out of the tournament; I\u2019m getting better, I am looking to return to training the day after next Wednesday&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ekong should be back in the team for the round of 16 match against the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injured Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles assistant captain William Troost Ekong is set to be back in the team training on Wednesday, BSNSports.com.ng reports. The Greece-based defender missed the team&#8217;s last match against Guinea-Bissau due to a knee injury and some certain believe the lanky defender may not be able to play again Ekong revealed that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16297,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16264\/revisions\/16297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}