{"id":36007,"date":"2024-06-06T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-born-midfielder-named-in-italys-euro-2024-squad\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:04:17","slug":"nigerian-born-midfielder-named-in-italys-euro-2024-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-born-midfielder-named-in-italys-euro-2024-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian-born midfielder named in Italy\u2019s Euro 2024 squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Italy head coach, Luciano Spalletti, has included Nigerian-born midfielder, Michael Folorunso in his final 26-man squad for the Euro 2024 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Folorunso was born in Italy to Nigerian parents and was eligible to represent both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Spalletti had originally called up 30 players for the Coverciano training camp last week<\/p>\n<p>Folorunso spent the 2023\u201324 season on loan at Hellas Verona from Napoli.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old scored five goals and provided an assist in 34 league appearances for Hellas Verona.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bari player was handed his maiden invitation by Spalletti in March.<\/p>\n<p>He was on the bench for Venezuela and Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Italy are in Group B along with Spain, Croatia and Albania.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian-born midfielder named in Italy\u2019s Euro 2024 squad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy head coach, Luciano Spalletti, has included Nigerian-born midfielder, Michael Folorunso in his final 26-man squad for the Euro 2024&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2713,17040,15,160],"tags":[1279,2716,17042,17041,660,233,16781,180,17043,201,347],"class_list":["post-36007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euro-2024","category-michael-folorunso","category-news","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-euro","tag-folorunso","tag-italys","tag-michael","tag-midfielder","tag-named","tag-news","tag-nigerian-born","tag-sport","tag-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36007","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=36007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}