{"id":10626,"date":"2014-01-20T17:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:59:45","slug":"10626","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=10626","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jan-21-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jan-21-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Jan 21 2014\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10628\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jan-21-2014.jpg 599w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Jan-21-2014-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGabriel Reuben Eyes Spurs Move<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Reuben has been training with EPL side Tottenham Hotspur, his agent Tony Harris has confirmed to MTNFootball.com &#8220;It&#8217;s true that Gabriel joined Tottenham for training and if the deal materialises, the intention is for him to be loaned out to a club abroad,&#8221; Harris told MTNFootball.com &#8220;Gabriel is fully recovered and back to the form that earned him rave reviews towards the AFCON 2013 as well as during the Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifiers.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;There are several offers on the table but the key thing now is that Gabriel starts playing matches and enjoying his football in a competitive league. I expect his move will be finalised soon.\u201d<br \/>\nReuben ended his stay at Scottish side Kilmarnock on a mutual agreement after he requested for his contract to be terminated.<br \/>\nHe is in a late race to make Nigeria&#8217;s squad to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in June.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles sweat on injured Salami<br \/>\nNigeria are sweating on the fitness of striker Gbolahan Salami after he suffered an injury in Sunday&#8217;s decisive clash against South Africa.<br \/>\nTeam spokesman Ben Alayia said Salami was injured from the foul by Vuyo Mere, which saw him the Bafana defender see red thereafter.<br \/>\n\u201cSalami suffered a heavy knock against South Africa but we hope he will be fit in time for our quarterfinal on Saturday,\u201d the team official disclosed.<br \/>\nThe Shooting Stars striker has yet to score at this tournament, but he has brought a lot more urgency and flair to the Eagles strike force since he started the match against Mozambique<\/p>\n<p>However, the piece of cheering news from the Eagles camp in Cape Town is that Heartland left back Benjamin Francis has made a remarkable recovery and could be available for selection for Saturday&#8217;s game.<br \/>\nNigeria will meet the winners of Group B, which has Morocco, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso.<br \/>\nUganda are top of the group currently with four points, while Morocco are second on two points, Zimbabwe also have two points and Burkina Faso have a point The group will be decided later Monday as Uganda battle Morocco and Zimbabwe face Burkina Faso<\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Lauds Nwachukwu on Sports Development<br \/>\nImo Stat Commissioner of Police Mohammed Katsina has praised the efforts of Gen Adolphus Nwachukwu for investing his hard earned resources on the development of grassroot sports especially in his community.<br \/>\nThe outgoing police boss, who disclosed this at the grand finale of the Gen Nwachukwu Unity football competition for Ehime-Mbano communities, stated that with activities like this especially from private individuals sports development in Nigeria at the grassroot level will surely see the day light.<br \/>\nIn his own address, the donor of the championship, Gen Nwachukwu revealed that the brain behind his venture into sports activity is to immortalize his late father who was a teacher and loved football a great deal.<br \/>\nHe however, stated that the competition is also to help the young and talented players reach their dream as well as to help curb the menace of social vices by gainfully engaging the youths within the period of the championship.<br \/>\nGen Nwachukwu then called on the youths of Ehime-Mbano to always remain hardworking in all of their endeavours citing an example with his life who started from an ordinary village boy before rising to become a General in the Nigerian Army.<br \/>\nUmunakunu FC in the final game defeated Umualumaku 4-3 on penallis to cart away the giant trophy plus a huge amount of money while Gen Nwachukwu later announced during the presentation of medals and trophies about a concluded arrangements to form Ehime-Mbano Bombers FC that will  tour  major cities in Nigeria in other to expose the players.  <\/p>\n<p>QUARTER FINALS, IKEOHA UNITY CUP<br \/>\nRESULTS 19\/1\/14<br \/>\nAmainyi   4 pen 3   Ihitte-Nsu<br \/>\nCHAN RESULTS 19\/1\/14<br \/>\nNigeria   3  1   South Africa<br \/>\nMozambique 1 &#8212; 2  Mali<br \/>\nFIXTURES 21\/1\/14<br \/>\nCongo   &#8212;   Libya<br \/>\nEthiopia   &#8212;   Ghana<br \/>\n22\/1\/14<br \/>\nBurundi   &#8212;   DR Congo<br \/>\nMauritania   &#8212;   Gabon<br \/>\nCAPITAL ONE CUP FITURES 21\/1\/14<br \/>\nWest Ham   &#8212;   Man City<br \/>\n22\/1\/14<br \/>\nMan United   &#8212;   Sunderland<br \/>\nCOPA DEL RAY 21\/1\/14<br \/>\nEspanyol   &#8212;   Real Madrid<br \/>\n22\/1\/14<br \/>\nLevante   &#8212;   Barcelona<br \/>\nReal Sociedad   &#8212;  Satander<br \/>\nCOPA ITALIA 21\/1\/14<br \/>\nRoma   &#8212;   Juventus<br \/>\n22\/1\/14<br \/>\nAC Milan   &#8212;   Udenise<br \/>\nEPL RESULTS WEEK 22 RESULTS<br \/>\nSwansea   1  3   Tottenham<br \/>\nChelsea   3  1   Man United<br \/>\nArsenal   2  0   Fulham<br \/>\nLiverpool   2  2   Aston Villa<br \/>\nMan City   4  2   Cardiff City<br \/>\nLA LIGA RESULTS<br \/>\nLevante   1  1   Barcelona<br \/>\nA\/Madrid   1 1   Sevilla<br \/>\nVillarreal   2  0   Almaria<br \/>\nReal Betis   0  5   Real Madrid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Reuben Eyes Spurs Move Gabriel Reuben has been training with EPL side Tottenham Hotspur,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10629,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/10629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}