{"id":14645,"date":"2019-08-25T15:56:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=14645"},"modified":"2019-08-25T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:56:29","slug":"nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria stand to benefit from Leganes’ Awaziem-Omeruo partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Super Eagles centre-backs have linked up in Spain, and could potentially rival the long-standing pairing of Leon Balogun and William Troost-Ekong<\/div>\n
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Chidozie Awaziem\u2019s loan move to\u00a0Leganes<\/a>\u00a0may have seen him depart Portuguese giants FC\u00a0Porto<\/a>\u00a0for a lesser side in\u00a0Spain<\/a>, but it should be\u00a0for the best as he probably wasn\u2019t going to get the necessary game time for Sergio Conceicao\u2019s side had he remained with the Dragons.<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, a place in Mauricio Pellegrino\u2019s team isn’t guaranteed, given the level of competition he has to face at the Cucumber Growers. The former\u00a0Nantes\u00a0defender is one of the six central defenders available to Pellegrino, and he’ll have to battle for his place in the side.<\/p>\n

The same probably goes for Kenneth Omeruo, who was one of the top performers for the club\u00a0last term. If gameweek one\u2019s 1-0 defeat by Osasuna is anything to go by, the former\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0man isn\u2019t going to have it all his way the second time around at the club, and must not also assume that his starting berth is set in stone.<\/p>\n

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The Super Eagles centre-backs have linked up in Spain, and could potentially rival the long-standing pairing of Leon Balogun and William Troost-Ekong Chidozie Awaziem\u2019s loan move to\u00a0Leganes\u00a0may have seen him depart Portuguese giants FC\u00a0Porto\u00a0for a lesser side in\u00a0Spain, but it should be\u00a0for the best as he probably wasn\u2019t going to get the necessary game time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,785,393,122],"class_list":["post-14645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-nigerian-football-stars","tag-pl","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"\nNigeria stand to benefit from Leganes' Awaziem-Omeruo partnership - 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\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria stand to benefit from Leganes' Awaziem-Omeruo partnership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Super Eagles centre-backs have linked up in Spain, and could potentially rival the long-standing pairing of Leon Balogun and William Troost-Ekong Chidozie Awaziem\u2019s loan move to\u00a0Leganes\u00a0may have seen him depart Portuguese giants FC\u00a0Porto\u00a0for a lesser side in\u00a0Spain, but it should be\u00a0for the best as he probably wasn\u2019t going to get the necessary game time […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-25T15:56:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/chidozie-awaziemleganes_y6w1a4d4o1gr12nrbxzzemg20.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria stand to benefit from Leganes’ Awaziem-Omeruo partnership\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-25T15:56:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership\"},\"wordCount\":201,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/chidozie-awaziemleganes_y6w1a4d4o1gr12nrbxzzemg20.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football\",\"Nigerian football stars\",\"PL\",\"Sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-stand-to-benefit-from-leganes-awaziem-omeruo-partnership\",\"name\":\"Nigeria stand to benefit from Leganes' Awaziem-Omeruo partnership - 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