{"id":1475,"date":"2014-09-06T07:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2014-09-06T07:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:58:01","slug":"aluko-happy-to-reunite-with-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"Aluko happy to reunite with Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1476\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sone-Aluko1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1476\" alt=\"Sone Aluko\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sone-Aluko1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sone Aluko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Winger Sone Aluko is happy to reunite with the national team after two years in football\u2019s international wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>The Hull City man has not been part of the Super Eagles since he was last invited for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in 2012 but he is happy to be part of the squad that would play the 2015 AFCON qualifiers against Congo (on Saturday) and South Africa\u2019s Bafana Bafana on Wednesday away from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels very great to be back, it\u2019s an honour to play for your country and I feel happy to be here again. I am looking forward to the match with confidence and just hope we go out and get victory,\u201dAluko said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I get my chance, I will give my best, but if not, no problem. That is the coaches\u2019 decision I am not going to question them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have welcomed me very well. I have known many of the players before; I played with some of them at the U-20 level and I met some previously in the Eagles camp. The atmosphere here is very good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all ready, everybody is fit physically and mentally. We\u2019ve been working hard. Though we haven\u2019t seen enough of the Congolese but we cannot say they are a bad side. We respect our opponents and are ready for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course I didn\u2019t come here to sit on the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winger Sone Aluko is happy to reunite with the national team after two years in football\u2019s international wilderness. The Hull City man has not been part of the Super Eagles since he was last invited for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in 2012 but he is happy to be part of the squad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sone-Aluko1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-nN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}