{"id":8872,"date":"2023-12-26T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/super-falcons-defender-plumptre-reveals-olympic-ambition\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:03:59","slug":"super-falcons-defender-plumptre-reveals-olympic-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/super-falcons-defender-plumptre-reveals-olympic-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Falcons defender Plumptre reveals Olympic ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ashleigh Plumptre has expressed her desire to represent Nigeria at the 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Plumptre represented England at youth level before switching allegiance to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has represented Nigeria at two major tournaments, namely, 2022 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations and 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The centre-back, however, stated that her ultimate ambition is to play at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it would be the pinnacle of my career. It makes me smile just thinking about the Olympics,\u201d Plumptre, who plays for Saudi club Al Ittihad, told Arab News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love helping people, and the only thing I was interested in at school was human biology. I was just fascinated with the human body. My dream when I was younger was to be a doctor on an Olympic team because I love the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Leicester City defender also reflected on her experience at the last World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a crazy, crazy experience, but one that I will always cherish. I want to remember this for the rest of my life,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Super Falcons defender Plumptre reveals Olympic ambition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashleigh Plumptre has expressed her desire to represent Nigeria at the 2024 Olympic Games. Plumptre represented England at youth level&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8873,"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-8872","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\/8872","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=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}