{"id":44545,"date":"2018-08-16T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=44545"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:03:54","slug":"kenneth-omeruo-joins-la-liga-side-leganes-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/kenneth-omeruo-joins-la-liga-side-leganes-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Omeruo Joins La Liga Side, Leganes On Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea Football Club of England defender, Kenneth Omeruo has sealed a loan move to La Liga club, Club Deportivo Legan\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

The Super Eagles of Nigeria player was unveiled, Tuesday as part of the club\u2019s team for the 2018\/ 2019 season which commences on Monday with an away game at Atletico Bilbao.<\/p>\n

Omeruo, a versatile centre-back also plays right-wing and will provide multiple options for the Mauricio Pellegrino side.<\/p>\n

Confirming the player\u2019s switch, representative of his management, Koye Sowemimo, Head of Sports, Temple Management Company (TMC), said, “we are delighted to see Kenneth join C.D. Leganes in La Liga. This move brings him closer to his supporters who will now be able to watch him regularly on TV. This move comes off the back of a successful world cup outing where he demonstrated why he is Nigeria’s best central defender”.<\/p>\n

Omeruo will bring to the Madrid-based club his fine form from national duties at the World Cup, Russia 2018 where he was one of the star performers for the Super Eagles of Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea Football Club of England defender, Kenneth Omeruo has sealed a loan move to La Liga club, Club Deportivo Legan\u00e9s. The Super Eagles of Nigeria player was unveiled, Tuesday as part of the club\u2019s team for the 2018\/ 2019 season which commences on Monday with an away game at Atletico Bilbao. Omeruo, a versatile centre-back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}