{"id":71790,"date":"2025-07-31T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71790"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:48:31","slug":"orakpo-targets-ligue-1-promotion-with-montpellier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/31\/orakpo-targets-ligue-1-promotion-with-montpellier\/","title":{"rendered":"Orakpo Targets Ligue 1 Promotion With Montpellier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian striker Victor Orakpo has joined French Ligue 2 side Montpellier on a season-long loan from OGC Nice, with a clear goal to help the club secure promotion to Ligue 1.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old forward expressed confidence in the team\u2019s abilities and urged fans to trust the squad\u2019s potential.<br \/>\n\u201cMy message to Montpellier is that they should believe in my teammates and me. We are going to give everything to gain promotion back to Ligue 1,\u201d Orakpo said.<\/p>\n<p>He described the loan spell as a key opportunity to showcase his talent and contribute significantly to the team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>The former OGC Nice youth product also stated his personal ambition to deliver both goals and assists during the 2025\/2026 campaign to support Montpellier\u2019s promotion push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Nigerian striker Victor Orakpo has joined French Ligue 2 side Montpellier on a season-long loan from OGC Nice, with a clear goal to help the club secure promotion to Ligue 1. The 19-year-old forward expressed confidence in the team\u2019s abilities and urged fans to trust the squad\u2019s potential. \u201cMy message to Montpellier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790","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=71790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71792,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71790\/revisions\/71792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}