{"id":24204,"date":"2024-03-27T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uefa-champions-league-chelsea-promotes-akpan-to-first-team\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:02:52","slug":"uefa-champions-league-chelsea-promotes-akpan-to-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uefa-champions-league-chelsea-promotes-akpan-to-first-team\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Champions League: Chelsea promotes Akpan to first team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Falcons-eligible midfielder Ashanti Akpan has been promoted to the Chelsea ladies first team.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder was involved in Chelsea\u2019s final training session on Tuesday, ahead of their UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League clash against Ajax.<\/p>\n<p>Akpan is currently representing England at the U19 level and has found favour in the sight of Chelsea manager Emma Hayes.<\/p>\n<p>There is the possibility that the midfielder could be included in the matchday squad for Wednesday\u2019s encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues beat Ajax 3-0 in the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>Akpan has been registered on Chelsea\u2019s List B for the Champions League and is most likely to wear the number 36.<\/p>\n<p>Akpan is born to a Nigerian father and a Polish mother and is eligible to play for any of the three countries at senior level.<\/p>\n<p>Akpan, 18, signed a new contract with Chelsea last December.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA Champions League: Chelsea promotes Akpan to first team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Falcons-eligible midfielder Ashanti Akpan has been promoted to the Chelsea ladies first team. The midfielder was involved in Chelsea\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4841,606,15,160,12982],"tags":[3156,1150,609,1145,180,201,2548],"class_list":["post-24204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-akpan","category-chelsea","category-news","category-sport","category-uefa-champions-league","tag-akpan","tag-champions","tag-chelsea","tag-league","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24204","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=24204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}