{"id":54910,"date":"2024-10-21T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/arokodare-not-willing-to-give-up-on-super-eagles-chance\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:04:39","slug":"arokodare-not-willing-to-give-up-on-super-eagles-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/arokodare-not-willing-to-give-up-on-super-eagles-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Arokodare not willing to give up on Super Eagles chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>KRC Genk forward, Tolu Arokodare, has claimed he must work harder to get recognised at the international level.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare has scored seven goals in 11 league appearances for the Smurfs this season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his impressive form for the Belgian Pro League side, the 23-year-old has been snubbed by the national team selectors.<\/p>\n<p>The forward however declared that he will continue working hard to earn a call-up to the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the national team, I know that I have to play in a major competition in the long term. If a Nigerian striker scores three times in the Premier League or the Bundesliga, I know that I have to score at least eight times to have a chance of being called up,\u201d he told De Standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be great to wear the shirt of my country. If the national coach does not call me up, I still have a club to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare not willing to give up on Super Eagles chance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRC Genk forward, Tolu Arokodare, has claimed he must work harder to get recognised at the international level. Arokodare has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6617,15,160,869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arokodare","category-news","category-sport","category-super-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910","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=54910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}