{"id":64791,"date":"2025-04-25T07:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64791"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:58:03","slug":"aliyu-ibrahim-joins-columbus-crew-in-mls-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/25\/aliyu-ibrahim-joins-columbus-crew-in-mls-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliyu Ibrahim Joins Columbus Crew in MLS Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian forward Aliyu Ibrahim has completed a move to Columbus Crew from Houston Dynamo FC in a player-for-cash deal within Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old penned a one-year deal with an option to extend for two more seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim brings with him a solid track record, having featured in 90 matches and netting 12 goals with nine assists for Dynamo across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>His impact helped Houston to major milestones, including winning the 2023 US Open Cup and reaching the Western Conference Final the same year.<\/p>\n<p>He was also instrumental in setting new club records in 2024 for points and away wins.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Crew\u2019s General Manager described Ibrahim as a young and dynamic attacker with the right experience to bolster the team\u2019s frontline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Nigerian forward Aliyu Ibrahim has completed a move to Columbus Crew from Houston Dynamo FC in a player-for-cash deal within Major League Soccer. The 23-year-old penned a one-year deal with an option to extend for two more seasons. Ibrahim brings with him a solid track record, having featured in 90 matches and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64793,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64791\/revisions\/64793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}