{"id":41235,"date":"2024-07-31T08:31:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41235"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:31:35","slug":"iheanacho-arrives-spain-to-seal-sevilla-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/31\/iheanacho-arrives-spain-to-seal-sevilla-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Iheanacho Arrives Spain To Seal Sevilla Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles star Kelechi Iheanacho has arrived Spain to complete his transfer to Spanish LaLaiga side Sevilla.<br \/>\nSevilla confirmed Iheanacho\u2019s arrival with a photo of him at the airport and wrote in Igbo: \u201cNn\u1ecd\u1ecd Kelechi\u201d which in English means \u201cWelcome Kelechi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Italian journalist and transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, Iheanacho is expected to sign a two-year deal with Sevilla.<br \/>\nIf he completes the move, he would become the second Nigerian ever to sign for Sevilla following the arrival of Chidera Ejuke this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Iheanacho would join Sevilla as a free agent after the expiration of his contract at Leicester City, who won promotion back to the Premier League.<br \/>\nThe 27-year-old, who joined Leicester inn2017 from Manchester City, scored 35 goals in 173 games for the Foxes.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at Leicester, Iheanacho won the FA Cup, Community Shield and the Championship title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles star Kelechi Iheanacho has arrived Spain to complete his transfer to Spanish LaLaiga side Sevilla. Sevilla confirmed Iheanacho\u2019s arrival with a photo of him at the airport and wrote in Igbo: \u201cNn\u1ecd\u1ecd Kelechi\u201d which in English means \u201cWelcome Kelechi\u201d. According to Italian journalist and transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, Iheanacho is expected to sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[461],"class_list":["post-41235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-iheanacho"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41235","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41237,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41235\/revisions\/41237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}