{"id":23180,"date":"2024-03-21T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-have-african-roots-serie-a-defender-dorgu-speaks-on-playing-for-nigeria-denmark\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:03:38","slug":"i-have-african-roots-serie-a-defender-dorgu-speaks-on-playing-for-nigeria-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-have-african-roots-serie-a-defender-dorgu-speaks-on-playing-for-nigeria-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I have African roots\u2019 \u2013 Serie A defender, Dorgu speaks on playing for Nigeria, Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lecce left-back Patrick Dorgu has spoken about the possibility of representing his parents\u2019 country, Nigeria, at senior level.<\/p>\n<p>The highly rated left-back spoke about his international future ahead of the 2024 European Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Dorgu stands the chance to represent his country of birth, Denmark, as well as Nigeria, where his parents originally hail from.<\/p>\n<p>Dorgu is provisionally cap-tied to Denmark, having made a competitive debut for their youth team in a European U19 Championship qualifier against Georgia in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He is dreaming of playing for Denmark in the European Championship in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t thought about that. Everyone dreams of being able to represent their country,\u201d Dorgu told Bold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was born in Denmark and have African roots, and right now I haven\u2019t thought about having to make a choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just play football and let it come with time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I have African roots\u2019 \u2013 Serie A defender, Dorgu speaks on playing for Nigeria, Denmark<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecce left-back Patrick Dorgu has spoken about the possibility of representing his parents\u2019 country, Nigeria, at senior level. The highly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12614,12615,15,901,566,160],"tags":[12617,12616,180,18,574,201],"class_list":["post-23180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denmark","category-dorgu","category-news","category-nigeria","category-serie-a","category-sport","tag-denmark","tag-dorgu","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-serie","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180","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=23180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}