{"id":82292,"date":"2023-02-11T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final"},"modified":"2023-02-11T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:00:22","slug":"club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final","title":{"rendered":"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real Madrid when they clash in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup on Saturday (today).<\/p>\n

Ramon Diaz\u2019s side are looking to become the first Asian side to win the competition.<\/p>\n

Al Hilal may be the most decorated club in Asia , but they will be up against the grandest institution on planet football, Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

Ighalo has played a key role in his side\u2019s march to the final even though he is yet to open his goal account in the competition.<\/p>\n

The Nigerian, alongside Gustavo Cuellar, Andre Carillon, Luciano Vietto and Michael are the men the Blues Waves will look upon to help them complete another mission impossible after the shocking 3-2 win against Brazilian club Flamengo in the semi-final.<\/p>\n

Real Madrid, who swept aside Egypt\u2019s Al Ahly 4-1 in the semis, will strive to make it 10 consecutive victories in the competition.<\/p>\n

Manager, Carlo Ancelotti will welcome back talismanic forward, Karim Benzema to the side with most of the usual casts available.<\/p>\n

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

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real Madrid when they clash in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup on Saturday (today). Ramon Diaz\u2019s side are looking to become the first Asian side to win the competition. Al […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1570,2140,9779,6696,1381,254,1641],"class_list":["post-82292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-al-hilal","tag-club-world-cup","tag-ighalo","tag-nigeria","tag-real-madrid"],"yoast_head":"\nClub World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real ...\" \/>\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\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-11T11:18:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-11T13:00:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1510\" \/>\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\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-11T11:18:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-11T13:00:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Al Hilal\",\"Club World Cup\",\"Ighalo\",\"Nigeria\",\"Real Madrid\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final\",\"name\":\"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-11T11:18:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-11T13:00:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":1510,\"caption\":\"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final\"}]},{\"@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":"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final - Nigeria","description":"Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real ...","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\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final","og_description":"Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2023-02-11T11:18:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-11T13:00:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1440,"height":1510,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.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\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final","datePublished":"2023-02-11T11:18:08+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-11T13:00:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final"},"wordCount":211,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Al Hilal","Club World Cup","Ighalo","Nigeria","Real Madrid"],"articleSection":["all news","Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final","name":"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg","datePublished":"2023-02-11T11:18:08+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-11T13:00:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Odion Ighalo and his Al Hilal teammates will look to do the unthinkable, upset European champions and the almighty Real ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1676105307.53.jpg","width":1440,"height":1510,"caption":"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/club-world-cup-ighalo-seeks-history-as-al-hilal-face-real-madrid-in-final#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Club World Cup: Ighalo seeks history as Al Hilal face Real Madrid in final"}]},{"@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\/82292","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=82292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}