{"id":46227,"date":"2021-07-05T18:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=46227"},"modified":"2021-07-05T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T17:39:45","slug":"i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players","title":{"rendered":"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will not allow them move to \u201cmushroom clubs\u201d abroad.<\/p>\n

Pinnick also urged football agents to stop taking players to unknown leagues in Europe.<\/p>\n

Instead, he promised to help players from the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), join top clubs in major leagues.<\/p>\n

Pinnick stated this while addressing home-based Super Eagles players in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re living in Nigeria, you\u2019re going to a top club.<\/p>\n

\u201cVillarreal, Valencia, Lille, and all those proud footballing clubs and not to one mushroom club that you\u2019re better off,\u201d he said as quoted by Brila.net.<\/p>\n

Nigeria vs Mexico: Rohr is difficult to impress \u2013 Pinnick warns players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will not allow them move to \u201cmushroom clubs\u201d abroad. Pinnick also urged football agents to stop taking players to unknown leagues in Europe. Instead, he promised to help players from the Nigeria Professional Football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,579,3257],"class_list":["post-46227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-npfl","tag-pinnick"],"yoast_head":"\nI will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will ...\" \/>\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\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-05T17:51:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-05T17:51:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"NPFL\",\"pinnick\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players\",\"name\":\"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-05T17:51:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players\"}]},{\"@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\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players - Nigeria","description":"President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will ...","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\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players","og_description":"President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2021-07-05T17:51:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players","datePublished":"2021-07-05T17:51:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players"},"wordCount":140,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Nigeria","NPFL","pinnick"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players","name":"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg","datePublished":"2021-07-05T17:51:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has warned players based in the country, that he will ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e343b5c384f.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/i-will-not-allow-you-to-join-mushroom-clubs-abroad-pinnick-warns-npfl-players#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"I will not allow you to join \u2018mushroom clubs\u2019 abroad \u2013 Pinnick warns NPFL players"}]},{"@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\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46227","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\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}