{"id":67300,"date":"2025-06-04T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67300"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:55:57","slug":"playing-for-super-eagles-boosted-my-career-lookman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/04\/playing-for-super-eagles-boosted-my-career-lookman\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing for Super Eagles Boosted My Career -Lookman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atalanta winger Ademola Lookman says representing the Super Eagles has significantly transformed his career and personal life.<\/p>\n<p>Born in England to Nigerian parents, the 27-year-old was part of the England squad that won the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2017 before switching his international allegiance to Nigeria in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Super Eagles, Lookman has become a key figure in the team.<\/p>\n<p>He played a vital role in Nigeria\u2019s impressive run to the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, contributing three goals and one assist in seven matches.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the impact of his decision, Lookman said: \u201cWithout a doubt, it changed my career and my life. People know that. This is my home. This is my place. I enjoy it here. I am the son of the soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lookman was also honoured as Africa\u2019s Best Player at an award ceremony in Marrakech, Morocco, last December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Atalanta winger Ademola Lookman says representing the Super Eagles has significantly transformed his career and personal life. Born in England to Nigerian parents, the 27-year-old was part of the England squad that won the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2017 before switching his international allegiance to Nigeria in 2022. Since joining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67300","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67302,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67300\/revisions\/67302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}