{"id":58715,"date":"2024-11-13T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/my-parents-were-born-in-lagos-england-born-defender-osho\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:04:52","slug":"my-parents-were-born-in-lagos-england-born-defender-osho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/my-parents-were-born-in-lagos-england-born-defender-osho\/","title":{"rendered":"My parents were born in Lagos \u2013 England-born defender, Osho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>England-born defender, Gabriel Osho, has confirmed that his parents were born in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The footballer has committed his international future to Nigeria over his country of birth, England, and landed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Monday ahead of a possible cap-tying game for the three-time African champions.<\/p>\n<p>Osho was born and raised in Reading, England.<\/p>\n<p>The Auxerre star is qualified to play for the Super Eagles by virtue of being born to a Nigerian father and mother, who are natives of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Despite holding dual nationality, it is believed that Osho prioritized playing for the Super Eagles of Nigeria instead of the Three Lions of England.<\/p>\n<p>Osho was handed his first call-up to the Super Eagles back in March 2024 against Ghana and Mali, following his exploits with Luton Town in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Gabriel Osho, defender for Auxerre and the Super Eagles,\u201d Osho told Super Eagles media team ahead of Nigeria\u2019s upcoming AFCON qualifier against Benin Republic on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth my parents were born in Lagos, I am happy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My parents were born in Lagos \u2013 England-born defender, Osho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England-born defender, Gabriel Osho, has confirmed that his parents were born in Lagos, Nigeria. The footballer has committed his international&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4187,15,4737,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","category-news","category-osho","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58715","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=58715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}