{"id":49204,"date":"2024-09-20T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T09:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49204"},"modified":"2024-09-20T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T09:18:58","slug":"boniface-excited-to-make-champions-league-debut-with-leverkusen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/20\/boniface-excited-to-make-champions-league-debut-with-leverkusen\/","title":{"rendered":"Boniface Excited To Make Champions League Debut With Leverkusen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Boniface can\u2019t hide his excitement after making his UEFA Champions League debut for Bayer Leverkusen.<br \/>\nThe Bundesliga champions defeated their hosts Feyenoord 4-0 at the Stadion Feijnoord, Rotterdam on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface was in action for 63 minutes before Patrick Schick replaced him.<br \/>\nDespite not scoring in the game, the 23-year-old was a thorn in the flesh of the opposition&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international recounted his early days in Akure where he used to watch Champions League games on television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom paying 30naira to watch champions league football for night back then for 323 army barrack akure<br \/>\nTo playing my first Champions League game. Proud of this moment,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Boniface can\u2019t hide his excitement after making his UEFA Champions League debut for Bayer Leverkusen. The Bundesliga champions defeated their hosts Feyenoord 4-0 at the Stadion Feijnoord, Rotterdam on Thursday night. Boniface was in action for 63 minutes before Patrick Schick replaced him. Despite not scoring in the game, the 23-year-old was a thorn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1531],"class_list":["post-49204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-victor-boniface"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204","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=49204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49207,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204\/revisions\/49207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}