{"id":51445,"date":"2024-10-10T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=51445"},"modified":"2024-10-10T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:43:51","slug":"npfl-temple-emekayi-named-new-rivers-united-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/10\/npfl-temple-emekayi-named-new-rivers-united-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"NPFL: Temple Emekayi Named New Rivers United Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers United have named Temple Emekayi their new captain for the 2024\/25 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach, Finidi George confirmed that the dependable centre-back will take the armband, having led the team since Nyima Nwagua\u2019s departure and captained the side during the opening five matches this season.<\/p>\n<p>The defender will be assisted by left-back Paul Odeh, who has also been named assistant captain.<br \/>\nHe joined Rivers United in January 2019 and has established himself as one of the key players at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Emekayi played an influential role in the team\u2019s exploits in the NPFL and CAF Interclub competitions, including winning the 2021\/2022 league title and back-to-back CAF Confederation\u2019s Cup quarterfinal appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Pride of Rivers will face Katsina United in a matchday six fixture at the Muhammadu Dikko Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers United have named Temple Emekayi their new captain for the 2024\/25 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season. Head coach, Finidi George confirmed that the dependable centre-back will take the armband, having led the team since Nyima Nwagua\u2019s departure and captained the side during the opening five matches this season. The defender will be assisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1155],"class_list":["post-51445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-npfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445","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=51445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51447,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51445\/revisions\/51447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}