{"id":75462,"date":"2025-09-12T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75462"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:09:12","slug":"as-monaco-signs-16-year-old-nigerian-striker-ekene-chukwuani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/as-monaco-signs-16-year-old-nigerian-striker-ekene-chukwuani\/","title":{"rendered":"AS Monaco Signs 16-Year-Old Nigerian Striker Ekene Chukwuani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>French Ligue 1 side AS Monaco have completed the signing of 16-year-old Danish-born Nigerian striker, Ekene Chukwuani, from Br\u00f8ndby IF.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwuani, born on January 7, 2009, in Hvidovre, Denmark, to Nigerian parents, will join Monaco\u2019s Academy on a three-year deal worth about \u20ac2 million (15 million DKK).<\/p>\n<p>The move marks the first time Br\u00f8ndby\u2019s Masterclass academy has sold a player directly to a top-tier European club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis transfer is a testament to the fantastic work being done at Masterclass with our young talents,\u201d Br\u00f8ndby officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The highly-rated forward has already attracted attention across Europe, and Monaco is expected to provide him with a strong platform to further his development and career in French football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; French Ligue 1 side AS Monaco have completed the signing of 16-year-old Danish-born Nigerian striker, Ekene Chukwuani, from Br\u00f8ndby IF. Chukwuani, born on January 7, 2009, in Hvidovre, Denmark, to Nigerian parents, will join Monaco\u2019s Academy on a three-year deal worth about \u20ac2 million (15 million DKK). The move marks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75462","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\/75462","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=75462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75464,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75462\/revisions\/75464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}