{"id":25573,"date":"2020-05-27T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25573"},"modified":"2020-05-27T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:10:29","slug":"peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles","title":{"rendered":"Peter Crouch keen to represent the Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Amidst rumours of Harry Redknapp&#8217;s arrival, the former England striker appears keen to switch nationality and turn out for the West African giants!<\/p>\n<p>Peter Crouch looks set to be the next England-born player to turn out for Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles\u2026at least if his latest cheeky tweet is to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>The former Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur striker responded to rumours that the Nigeria Football Federation are considering a move to recruit Harry Redknapp to replace Gernot Rohr by throwing his hat into the ring for an international switch!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo excited to get my Nigerian passport through today,\u201d Crouch tweeted on Tuesday. \u201cGo Super Eagles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for any Nigeria fans hopeful of the 39-year-old forward coming out of retirement to don the famous green of the Super Eagles, Fifa guidelines outline that players who represent one nation in competitive fixtures are not allowed to switch nationality.<\/p>\n<p>This would prevent 42-cap ex-England man Crouch from ever turning out for his beloved Super Eagles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Amidst rumours of Harry Redknapp&#8217;s arrival, the former England striker appears keen to switch nationality and turn out for the West African giants! Peter Crouch looks set to be the next England-born player to turn out for Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles\u2026at least if his latest cheeky tweet is to be believed. The former Liverpool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-25573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"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>Peter Crouch keen to represent the Super Eagles - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Amidst rumours of Harry Redknapp&#039;s arrival, the former England striker appears keen to switch nationality and turn out for the West\" \/>\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\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Crouch keen to represent the Super Eagles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Amidst rumours of Harry Redknapp&#039;s arrival, the former England striker appears keen to switch nationality and turn out for the West\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-27T18:10:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/peter-crouch_vbr4kaqt2i0214p6fq8a37lgv.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\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Peter Crouch keen to represent the Super Eagles\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-27T18:10:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles\"},\"wordCount\":174,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/peter-crouch_vbr4kaqt2i0214p6fq8a37lgv.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/peter-crouch-keen-to-represent-the-super-eagles\",\"name\":\"Peter Crouch keen to represent the Super Eagles - 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