{"id":5409,"date":"2015-07-31T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:30:09","slug":"former-captain-of-nigerias-super-eagles-austin-jay-jay-okocha-may-be-on-his-way-back-to-english-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5409","title":{"rendered":"Former captain of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Austin \u2018Jay Jay\u2019 Okocha may be on his way back to English football."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Okocha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5410\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Okocha.jpg\" alt=\"Okocha\" width=\"224\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Delta-newsroom-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5344\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Delta-newsroom-logo1.png\" alt=\"Delta newsroom logo\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The former Botlon Wanderers skipper, who is the second all-time great for the Whites, was reported to have played 45 minutes for Wolverton\u2019s reserves but is yet to say if he would stay with the club permanently.<\/p>\n<p>The former Paris Saint Germain midfield trojan, who played for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga, might complete a shock return to the football pitch if the he agrees to any offer by the modest English clubside.<br \/>\nAccording to sbnation.com, Amanda Keech, chairperson of Wolverton Town, said:\u201cHe did play 45 minutes last week for us but we can\u2019t say either way whether he will sign yet.<br \/>\n\u201cHe is friends with somebody who coaches at the club and could be helping out with pre-season training with the players. We will be able to say more once he has decided.\u201d<br \/>\nOkocha captained the Whites to the 2004 League Cup final for the first time in the club\u2019s history and was listed on FIFA\u2019s top 100 football players ever.<br \/>\nThe legendary Nigerian player recently blasted Nigerian football, explaining how the country\u2019s round leather game became a mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Botlon Wanderers skipper, who is the second all-time great for the Whites, was reported to have played 45 minutes for Wolverton\u2019s reserves but is yet to say if he would stay with the club permanently. The former Paris Saint Germain midfield trojan, who played for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga, might complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5410,"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":[324,325],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-j-j-okocha","tag-wolverton-town"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Okocha.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1pf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","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=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}