{"id":4653,"date":"2023-11-30T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/plumptre-explains-absence-from-super-falcons\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T10:05:00","slug":"plumptre-explains-absence-from-super-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/plumptre-explains-absence-from-super-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Plumptre explains absence from Super Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre has revealed the reason for her continued absence from the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia centre-back has not played for Nigeria since starring at the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have been asked about Plumptre\u2019s exclusion by interim head coach Justin Madugu.<\/p>\n<p>The former Leicester City player claimed it was her personal decision not to play for the nine-time African champions for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I guess it has been a break. I haven\u2019t been able to go to the upcoming camp, like I said, it\u2019s more of a personal decision while I take care of my body,\u201d Plumptre said in an interview with Nigeria Football.<br \/>\n\u201cBut ultimately, I want to be fun with the team. It\u2019s a privilege. And I want to be in the best physical condition to be able to go and compete in important games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has made 15 appearances for the Super Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>Plumptre explains absence from Super Falcons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre has revealed the reason for her continued absence from the team. The Al-Ittihad of Saudi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5762,160,4864],"tags":[4780,180,5763,201,870],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-plumptre","category-sport","category-super-falcons","tag-falcons","tag-news","tag-plumptre","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","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=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}