{"id":67115,"date":"2025-06-02T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67115"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:33:02","slug":"benfica-eyes-arokodare-after-belgian-goal-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/02\/benfica-eyes-arokodare-after-belgian-goal-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica Eyes Arokodare After Belgian Goal Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese powerhouse Benfica have entered the race to land red-hot KRC Genk striker Tolu Arokodare, following his sensational season in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian forward lit up the Belgian Pro League in the 2024-25 campaign, finishing as the league\u2019s top scorer with 21 goals.<\/p>\n<p>His stellar form also earned him the coveted Ebony Shoe award, given to the best African player in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>According to Belgian outlet Voetbalkrant, Benfica have shown strong interest in securing the 24-year-old\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare, who joined Genk from French side Amiens SC in January 2023, is also on the radar of clubs in Germany, France, and England.<\/p>\n<p>Genk are reportedly willing to cash in on the striker amid growing interest.<\/p>\n<p>The former Cologne man is currently with the Nigerian national team on international duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande &nbsp; Portuguese powerhouse Benfica have entered the race to land red-hot KRC Genk striker Tolu Arokodare, following his sensational season in Belgium. The Nigerian forward lit up the Belgian Pro League in the 2024-25 campaign, finishing as the league\u2019s top scorer with 21 goals. His stellar form also earned him the coveted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67115","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\/67115","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67117,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67115\/revisions\/67117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}