{"id":47372,"date":"2024-09-06T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47372"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:01:51","slug":"oliseh-hails-lookmans-ballon-dor-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/06\/oliseh-hails-lookmans-ballon-dor-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliseh Hails Lookman\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian international Sunday Oliseh has lauded Super Eagles winger Ademola Lookman for his inclusion in this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or award.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian internal, who netted a hat-trick for Atalanta in the team\u2019s triumph at the Europa League final, was nominated among some of the established players in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>His contributions at the international level were equally impressive, with three goals and one assist instrumental in guiding Nigeria to the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to his nomination, the former Super Eagles coach, via his official X handle, welcomed Lookman into the Ballon d\u2019Or family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Ademola Lookman for joining this exclusive list of Nigerians who were globally acclaimed! Naija\u2019s all-time magnificent 8 just became THE MAGNIFICENT 8. Delighted and welcome to the club, Lil bro.\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian international Sunday Oliseh has lauded Super Eagles winger Ademola Lookman for his inclusion in this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or award. The Nigerian internal, who netted a hat-trick for Atalanta in the team\u2019s triumph at the Europa League final, was nominated among some of the established players in Europe. His contributions at the international level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[739,637],"class_list":["post-47372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ademola-lookman","tag-sunday-oliseh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47372","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=47372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47375,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47372\/revisions\/47375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}