{"id":10977,"date":"2024-01-08T17:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-iwobi-wants-to-emulate-uncle-okocha-by-winning-title\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:07:36","slug":"afcon-2023-iwobi-wants-to-emulate-uncle-okocha-by-winning-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-iwobi-wants-to-emulate-uncle-okocha-by-winning-title\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Iwobi wants to emulate \u2018uncle\u2019 Okocha by winning title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Alex Iwobi hopes to emulate his uncle, Austin Jay Jay Okocha by winning the African Cup of Nations, AFCON, title.<\/p>\n<p>Okocha was part of the Super Eagles side that won the AFCON in Tunisia in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi came close to matching the former midfielder\u2019s feat when the Super Eagles made it to semi-finals five years ago in Egypt but they were eliminated by eventual winners Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>With the Super Eagles set to compete again at Cote d\u2019Ivoire 2023, the Fulham man is desperate to have his hand around trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know my uncle has won it, and I\u2019d like to have one to my name as well,\u201d the former Everton player told BeIN Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we have the quality to do so, and hopefully we can do that, and I want to brag to him as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Iwobi wants to emulate \u2018uncle\u2019 Okocha by winning title<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Iwobi hopes to emulate his uncle, Austin Jay Jay Okocha by winning the African Cup of Nations, AFCON, title.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,4700,15,5359,160],"tags":[210,110,3351,180,5361,201],"class_list":["post-10977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-iwobi","category-news","category-okocha","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-iwobi","tag-news","tag-okocha","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}