{"id":38050,"date":"2024-07-09T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38050"},"modified":"2024-07-09T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:31:53","slug":"otele-thrilled-to-join-uae-club-al-wahda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/09\/otele-thrilled-to-join-uae-club-al-wahda\/","title":{"rendered":"Otele Thrilled To Join UAE Club Al Wahda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Otele is delighted to join United Arab Emirates club, Al Wahda.<\/p>\n<p>Otele completed his move to Al Wahda from Romanian club, CFR Cluj on Monday.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian put pen to paper on a five-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year -old opted to join Al Wahda despite interest from Premier League club, Brighton &amp; Hove Albion.<br \/>\n\u201cI am extremely happy and excited for the upcoming challenges and competitions with Al Wahda,\u201d he told the club\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d I am proud to wear this badge and grateful for the warm welcome and confidence from the club\u2019s leadership and management.\u201d<br \/>\nAl Wahda has also welcome the striker to the club \u201cThe Board of Directors, represented by Mr. Ahmed Awadh Al Otaiba, Vice Chairman of the Football Company, welcomed the player to the home of champions, wishing him success and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Al Otaiba stated that \u201cOtele\u201d was sought after by various clubs aiming to enhance their squads with a distinguished player, appreciating the role of the friendly CFR Cluj administration in completing the transfer procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Otele is delighted to join United Arab Emirates club, Al Wahda. Otele completed his move to Al Wahda from Romanian club, CFR Cluj on Monday. The Nigerian put pen to paper on a five-year contract. The 25-year -old opted to join Al Wahda despite interest from Premier League club, Brighton &amp; Hove Albion. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1160],"class_list":["post-38050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-otele"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050","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=38050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38062,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38050\/revisions\/38062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}