{"id":54773,"date":"2024-10-20T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/osimhen-backs-wonder-goal-to-win-puskas-award\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:04:42","slug":"osimhen-backs-wonder-goal-to-win-puskas-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/osimhen-backs-wonder-goal-to-win-puskas-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Osimhen backs wonder goal to win Puskas award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Victor Osimhen has backed his incredible strike in Galatasaray\u2019s win against Antalyaspor to win the Puskas Award.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen scored a superb overhead kick goal in the closing stages of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether his goal deserved a Pusk\u00e1s nomination, the reigning African Men\u2019s Player of the Year didn\u2019t hide his feelings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it could be. It was an incredible goal. It\u2019s a classy goal, why not, it could be,\u201d he told the club\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has scored three goals for the Turkish Super Lig champions this season.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen joined the Yellow and Reds on loan from Napoli this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen backs wonder goal to win Puskas award<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Osimhen has backed his incredible strike in Galatasaray\u2019s win against Antalyaspor to win the Puskas Award. Osimhen scored a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1557,14679,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-osimhen","category-puskas","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54773","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=54773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}