{"id":56301,"date":"2021-12-29T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=56301"},"modified":"2021-12-29T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T15:33:41","slug":"afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cameroon to allow his collar bone injury to heal properly.<\/p>\n

The 2021 AFCON begins on January 9 and ends on February 6, 2022.<\/p>\n

According to Football Italia, Osimhen spent the Christmas break in Nigeria, but he\u2019s expected to return to Naples on Friday for a medical check after a cheekbone surgery he underwent at the end of November.<\/p>\n

The report added that the 23-year-old may not be allowed to play against Juventus on January 6 and even in the AFCON, adding that \u201cit will be Nigeria\u2019s responsibility to consider the player available for the tournament in Cameroon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Osimhen\u2019s hope of playing in Nigeria\u2019s opening AFCON clash against Egypt on January 11 is hanging in the balance as his club\u2019s doctor has said he is not yet fit for action.<\/p>\n

Napoli ruled Osimhen out of action for three months, but the former Lille star said last week that he would be available to play for Nigeria at AFCON.<\/p>\n

Nigeria\u2019s training retreat starts today and it is still unclear whether or not Osimhen will join his Super Eagles\u2019 teammates for the first training session before the tournament starts.<\/p>\n

Osimhen\u2019s upcoming medical check-in Naples is crucial to assess his injury Gianpaolo Tartaro, the doctor who performed his surgery last month, said, \u201cIt takes from 60 to 90 days for the bone callus formation unless there is a biological Christmas miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cameroon to allow his collar bone injury to heal properly. The 2021 AFCON begins on January 9 and ends on February 6, 2022. According to Football Italia, Osimhen spent the Christmas break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[5907,1570,2140,1702,254,2248],"class_list":["post-56301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-afcon-2021","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-napoli","tag-nigeria","tag-victor-osimhen"],"yoast_head":"\nAFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cam ...\" \/>\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\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cam ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-29T16:08:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.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\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-29T16:08:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria\"},\"wordCount\":266,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON 2021\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Napoli\",\"Nigeria\",\"Victor Osimhen\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria\",\"name\":\"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-29T16:08:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cam ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria\"}]},{\"@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":"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria - Nigeria","description":"Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cam ...","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\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria","og_description":"Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cam ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2021-12-29T16:08:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.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\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria","datePublished":"2021-12-29T16:08:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria"},"wordCount":266,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg","keywords":["AFCON 2021","Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Napoli","Nigeria","Victor Osimhen"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria","name":"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg","datePublished":"2021-12-29T16:08:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Napoli is set to stop striker, Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cam ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61cc7fb18a33a.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/afcon-2021-napoli-to-stop-victor-osimhen-from-representing-nigeria#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AFCON 2021: Napoli to stop Victor Osimhen from representing Nigeria"}]},{"@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\/56301","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=56301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}