{"id":22843,"date":"2024-03-12T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=22843"},"modified":"2024-03-12T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:59:32","slug":"chelseas-no-9-curse-why-armando-jackson-declined-the-infamous-shirt-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/12\/chelseas-no-9-curse-why-armando-jackson-declined-the-infamous-shirt-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s No. 9 Curse: Why Armando Jackson Declined the Infamous Shirt Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading the line for Chelsea has historically been a daunting task, as evidenced by the struggles of past No. 9s like Romelu Lukaku, Fernando Torres, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and Alvaro Morata. The No. 9 shirt, considered cursed at Chelsea&#8217;s Cobham training ground, has seen numerous players falter under its weight.<\/p>\n<p>Armando Jackson, upon his arrival from Villarreal, had the opportunity to inherit the infamous No. 9 shirt. However, despite having worn it for Senegal, he declined the offer. This decision left Chelsea as one of the few Premier League clubs without a designated No. 9, alongside Aston Villa, Tottenham, Newcastle, and Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Opting instead for the unorthodox No. 15, Jackson chose to follow in the footsteps of Chelsea legend Didier Drogba, who initially wore the same number upon his arrival at the club. The parallels between Jackson and Drogba were inevitable, given the shared numerical identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading the line for Chelsea has historically been a daunting task, as evidenced by the struggles of past No. 9s like Romelu Lukaku, Fernando Torres, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and Alvaro Morata. The No. 9 shirt, considered cursed at Chelsea&#8217;s Cobham training ground, has seen numerous players falter under its weight. Armando Jackson, upon his arrival from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[751],"class_list":["post-22843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-nicolas-jackson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22869,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions\/22869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}