{"id":37392,"date":"2024-07-04T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=37392"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:49:05","slug":"nigerian-forward-igbokwe-joins-portuguese-club-rio-ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/04\/nigerian-forward-igbokwe-joins-portuguese-club-rio-ave\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Forward Igbokwe Joins Portuguese Club Rio Ave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian forward Chukwudi Igbokwe has joined Portuguese topflight club Rio Ave as a free agent.<br \/>\nThe Portuguese outfit announced the signing on their website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRio Ave Futebol Clube \u2013 Futebol, SAD reached an agreement with Chukwudi Igbokwe to sign a contract valid until June 2026.<br \/>\n\u201cThe 22-year-old Nigerian forward trained this Wednesday under coach Lu\u00eds Freire, at the Rio Ave FC Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast season, Chukwudi played for KAA Gent in Belgium.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile playing for his country, he played for the Nigeria U-23 team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Igbokwe featured for KAA Gent B team in the 2022\/23 league season and scored 12 goals in 31 games.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2023\/24 league campaign, he only managed four goals in 22 appearances for Gent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian forward Chukwudi Igbokwe has joined Portuguese topflight club Rio Ave as a free agent. The Portuguese outfit announced the signing on their website. \u201cRio Ave Futebol Clube \u2013 Futebol, SAD reached an agreement with Chukwudi Igbokwe to sign a contract valid until June 2026. \u201cThe 22-year-old Nigerian forward trained this Wednesday under coach Lu\u00eds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1129],"class_list":["post-37392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-igbokwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37392","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=37392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37394,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37392\/revisions\/37394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}