{"id":3508,"date":"2014-12-05T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2014-12-05T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T07:48:08","slug":"super-eagles-striker-obafemi-martins-retires-from-international-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Striker, Obafemi Martins Retires From International Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/obafemi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3509\" alt=\"obafemi\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/obafemi.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prolific Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins has retired from the Super Eagles &amp; International football.<\/p>\n<p>Martins had made only two appearances for the Eagles since 2012, and believes there are people who don\u2019t want him in the team.<\/p>\n<div>Quote<\/div>\n<div>\u201cNo, I am done with my national team, I will not go there any more. I do not have good relationships with some companions, \u201d Martins said in an interview with Italian daily, La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they do not want me anymore, patience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love my country, I have given so much. But there are problems and although I am summoned, I do not go.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Martins made 39 appearances for the Super Eagles, netting 18 goals in the period that he played for the national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins has retired from the Super Eagles &amp; International football. Martins had made only two appearances for the Eagles since 2012, and believes there are people who don\u2019t want him in the team. Quote \u201cNo, I am done with my national team, I will not go there any more. I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3509,"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-3508","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\/12\/obafemi.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-UA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}