{"id":11266,"date":"2024-01-10T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-i-almost-quit-football-at-21-victor-boniface\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:05:46","slug":"why-i-almost-quit-football-at-21-victor-boniface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-i-almost-quit-football-at-21-victor-boniface\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I almost quit football at 21 \u2013 Victor Boniface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen forward, Victor Boniface says he almost quit football at 21 after sustaining an injury two weeks after signing with Norwegian club, FK Bod\u00f8\/Glimt in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old described his stint in Norway as \u201cchaotic,\u201d saying he had more \u201cbad stories than good stories\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent about three years in Norway. We won the league twice, came second one time. But football wise, it was chaotic for me. It was really bad for me. I think I have more bad stories than good stories there,\u201d Boniface said via Skype in the latest episode of Mikel Obi\u2019s podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s life, you know. I got an ACL injury two weeks after signing in Norway. I almost quit football at the age of 21.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also disclosed during the interview that before moving to Europe, he was a midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface recently bemoaned his constant struggles with injuries after he picked an injury that ruled him out of the 2023 African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>On his X handle, he lamented: \u201cU20 Nations Cup got injured 7 days before Nations cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuper Eagles got injured 6 days before Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNa Only God Knows why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why I almost quit football at 21 \u2013 Victor Boniface<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen forward, Victor Boniface says he almost quit football at 21 after sustaining an injury two weeks after signing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,160,6000],"tags":[1478,180,201,4742],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport","category-victor-boniface","tag-boniface","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-victor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266","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=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}