{"id":16912,"date":"2019-10-18T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2019-10-18T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:22:35","slug":"former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho","title":{"rendered":"Former Nigeria International Attacks Leicester City Striker Kelechi Iheanacho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho has come under severe attacks from retired midfield maestro and former Nigeria international Friday Ekpo for being the \u2018architect\u2019 of the problems militating against his career.<\/p>\n<p>Iheanacho, 23, has seen his stocks fallen drastically after going from being one of the world\u2019s most highly rated talents following his remarkable triumph with the Golden Eaglets squad that won the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup to languishing on the Foxes bench.<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester City attacker missed Nigeria\u2019s bronze-winning party to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations tournament and has not featured for even a single minute for Brendan Rodgers\u2019 side in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Ekpo however believes that several suitors would have been willing to take on Iheanacho and guarantee him regular playing time but his insistence on staying at Leicester City could only have been influenced by his love for money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIheanacho is still young but age is gradually catching up on him. He needs a club where he would be playing regularly,\u201d Friday Ekpo was quoted by Brila as monitored by Soccernet.ng.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me Iheanacho is the architect of his misfortune. He should be more interested in playing the game than chasing after mega bucks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he moves to Besiktas, his value would drop and he is not going to the club to grab automatic shirt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is still going to fight for regular place because Besiktas is not a small club in Turkey,\u201d Ekpo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho has come under severe attacks from retired midfield maestro and former Nigeria international Friday Ekpo for being the \u2018architect\u2019 of the problems militating against his career. Iheanacho, 23, has seen his stocks fallen drastically after going from being one of the world\u2019s most highly rated talents following his remarkable triumph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115,393],"class_list":["post-16912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports","tag-pl"],"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>Former Nigeria International Attacks Leicester City Striker Kelechi Iheanacho - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho has come under severe attacks from retired midfield maestro and former Nigeria international Friday\" \/>\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\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Nigeria International Attacks Leicester City Striker Kelechi Iheanacho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho has come under severe attacks from retired midfield maestro and former Nigeria international Friday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-18T17:22:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/images-48-600x375.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\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\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Former Nigeria International Attacks Leicester City Striker Kelechi Iheanacho\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-18T17:22:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/images-48-600x375.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\",\"PL\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-nigeria-international-attacks-leicester-city-striker-kelechi-iheanacho\",\"name\":\"Former Nigeria International Attacks Leicester City Striker Kelechi Iheanacho - 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