{"id":26319,"date":"2020-06-16T18:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26319"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:15:35","slug":"manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthday<br \/>\nManchester United striker and former Nigeria international Odion Ighalo has been celebrated on his 31st birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Confederation of African Football (Caf), Premier League sides Watford and the Red Devils have sent heartfelt messages to the forward.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets and the Old Trafford outfit recollected the on-loan Shanghai Shenhua striker\u2019s contribution with videos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The birthday boy doing what he did best back in 2015 ?<\/p>\n<p>?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighalojude?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ighalojude<\/a> ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoalOfTheDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoalOfTheDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8hAg6pe7Q9\">pic.twitter.com\/8hAg6pe7Q9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Watford Football Club (@WatfordFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatfordFC\/status\/1272846632946556929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthday Manchester United striker and former Nigeria international Odion Ighalo has been celebrated on his 31st birthday. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Confederation of African Football (Caf), Premier League sides Watford and the Red Devils [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-26319","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>Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthdayManchester United\" \/>\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\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthdayManchester United\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-16T18:15:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"392\" \/>\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<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\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-16T18:15:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star\"},\"wordCount\":93,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.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\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star\",\"name\":\"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-16T18:15:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"description\":\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthdayManchester United\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg\",\"width\":696,\"height\":392},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\",\"name\":\"alico\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star - Nigeria","description":"Africa Press-Nigeria:The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthdayManchester United","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star","og_description":"Africa Press-Nigeria:The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthdayManchester United","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2020-06-16T18:15:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":696,"height":392,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"alico","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"alico"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star"},"author":{"name":"alico","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"headline":"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star","datePublished":"2020-06-16T18:15:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star"},"wordCount":93,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.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\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star","name":"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg","datePublished":"2020-06-16T18:15:35+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"description":"Africa Press-Nigeria:The governing bodies and clubs have sent inspiring messages to the ex-Super Eagles star as he celebrates his birthdayManchester United","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Changchun-Yatai-of-China-striker-Odion-Jude-Ighalo-696x392.jpg","width":696,"height":392},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/manchester-united-watford-nff-and-caf-celebrate-nigerian-star#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Manchester United, Watford, NFF and Caf celebrate Nigerian star"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7","name":"alico","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}