{"id":1606,"date":"2020-07-21T17:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2020-07-21T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:14:59","slug":"i-attained-my-greatest-height-without-playing-in-europe-nigeria-football-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/i-attained-my-greatest-height-without-playing-in-europe-nigeria-football-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"I attained My greatest height without playing in Europe – Nigeria Football legend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nigeria football legend, Segun Odegbami said he attained great stride in the round leather game without playing in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odegbami who made this claim against the insinuation that he had a shortfall in his entire career for not playing overseas, said during his time, playing in Europe was not lucrative. He spoke while fielding questions a guest on FCT Football Update Whatsapp Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many plied their trade in Europe and we’re never heroes, Odegbami noted that he was listed as one of the Best Football Award in Africa while playing at home. A feat which he cherishes the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His words “There is no shortfall in my football career. The inability to play in Europe was not a shortfall”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I played all my football here, so it ended here so not playing in Europe did not affect it in any way. I attained the greatest height, even beyond Nigeria. Three times I was listed for the Best Footballer in Africa award, this was second to none”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the former Green Eagles Captain admits that missing out of the World Cup remains a big regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I narrowly missed out to the World Cup which is the one I really wanted not really playing in Europe, wasn’t fanciful to me at all”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria football legend, Segun Odegbami said he attained great stride in the round leather game without playing in Europe. Odegbami who made this claim against the insinuation that he had a shortfall in his entire career for not playing overseas, said during his time, playing in Europe was not lucrative. He spoke while fielding questions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[199,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}