{"id":42941,"date":"2024-07-21T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zambia-captain-names-oshoala-in-dream-5-a-side-team\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T11:00:26","slug":"zambia-captain-names-oshoala-in-dream-5-a-side-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zambia-captain-names-oshoala-in-dream-5-a-side-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia captain names Oshoala in dream 5-a-side team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Zambia captain, Barbara Banda has named Asisat Oshoala in her ideal 5-a-side team, DAILY POST reports.<\/p>\n<p>Banda is regarded as one of the best female footballers to have come out of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old will lead the Copper Queens at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Zambia\u2019s second consecutive appearance at the Olympics after their debut in Tokyo four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Banda, in an exclusive interview with FIFA.com named Oshoala among the best players in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, that\u2019s so difficult! (She thinks for a while) I would start with Marta. Then I\u2019ll go with [Nigeria\u2019s Asisat] Oshoala. With me, that\u2019s three.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I love playing with Rafa [Rafaelle] from Brazil. I know Marta can play in midfield, so I would put Rafa at the back, then Marta in midfield, me up front, also Oshoala and\u2026 [Sophia] Smith. That\u2019s it!<\/p>\n<p>Zambia captain names Oshoala in dream 5-a-side team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia captain, Barbara Banda has named Asisat Oshoala in her ideal 5-a-side team, DAILY POST reports. Banda is regarded as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4654,160,21642],"tags":[21643,6230,11664,351,180,4656,201,378,21644],"class_list":["post-42941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-oshoala","category-sport","category-zambia","tag-5-a-side","tag-captain","tag-dream","tag-names","tag-news","tag-oshoala","tag-sport","tag-team","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941","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=42941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}