{"id":1447,"date":"2019-01-01T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2019-01-01T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T18:24:35","slug":"nff-target-torunarigha-joins-psgs-mbappe-barcas-dembele-in-u21-team-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nff-target-torunarigha-joins-psgs-mbappe-barcas-dembele-in-u21-team-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"NFF Target Torunarigha Joins PSG&#8217;s Mbappe, Barca&#8217;s Dembele In U21 Team Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigeria Football Federation target Jordan Torunarigha has been chosen in the U21 Team of the Year Europe&#8217;s Top Five Leagues by influential football statistics website\u00a0<a class=\"twitter-timeline-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whoscored.com\/Articles\/CFMObtljpE6u-Ppt6utQcA\/Show\/Mbappe-finishes-2018-as-the-best-WhoScored-rated-youngster-in-Europe\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SeFCve9ze7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-expanded-url=\"https:\/\/www.whoscored.com\/Articles\/CFMObtljpE6u-Ppt6utQcA\/Show\/Mbappe-finishes-2018-as-the-best-WhoScored-rated-youngster-in-Europe\"><span class=\"invisible\">W<\/span><span class=\"js-display-url\">hoscored.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reviewing the most outstanding youngsters playing in the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A, the Hertha Berlin starlet is among the top two performing central defenders over the course of 2018.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain made the list as well as Barcelona&#8217;s Ousmane Dembele and Borussia Dortmund&#8217;s rising star Jadon Sancho.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 21-year-old Torunarigha was awarded the ninth highest rating, 7.20, of the eleven U21 stars named in the ceremonial eleven.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Josh Wright wrote on Torunarigha : &#8221;After flirting with Hertha Berlin\u2019s first-team during the 2016\/17 campaign, Jordan Torunarigha has been forced to wait until 2018 to really make his mark in the Bundesliga.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221;The 20-year-old made 16 Bundesliga appearances this year and is now firmly knocking on the door for a regular starting berth behind Niklas Stark and Fabian Lustenberger.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221;Torunarigha is Hertha\u2019s third-joint top scorer in the Bundesliga this season with two goals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221;Furthermore, of players aged 21 or under in Europe\u2019s top five leagues that made at least 10 appearances in 2018, only four averaged more clearances per game than Torunarigha (4.7).&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Toruanrigha committed his future to Hertha BSC after penning a new long-term contract on December 21, 2018.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Football Federation target Jordan Torunarigha has been chosen in the U21 Team of the Year Europe&#8217;s Top Five Leagues by influential football statistics website\u00a0Whoscored. Reviewing the most outstanding youngsters playing in the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A, the Hertha Berlin starlet is among the top two performing central defenders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,212],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NFF Target Torunarigha Joins PSG&#039;s Mbappe, Barca&#039;s Dembele In U21 Team Of The Year - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nff-target-torunarigha-joins-psgs-mbappe-barcas-dembele-in-u21-team-of-the-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NFF Target Torunarigha Joins PSG&#039;s Mbappe, Barca&#039;s Dembele In U21 Team Of The Year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria Football Federation target Jordan Torunarigha has been chosen in the U21 Team of the Year Europe&#8217;s Top Five Leagues by influential football statistics website\u00a0Whoscored. 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