{"id":4605,"date":"2025-12-15T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:57:50","slug":"igoh-ogbus-thoughts-on-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/12\/15\/igoh-ogbus-thoughts-on-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Igoh Ogbu\u2019s Thoughts on AFCON<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (December 15<sup>th<\/sup> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slavia Prague defender Igoh Ogbu has been called up by Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle for the 35<sup>th<\/sup> Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Conveniently, the Czech season has started its winter break, so the AFCON break doesn\u2019t disrupt his club team beyond not having a break \u2013 the same applies in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogbu shared his thoughts on the forthcoming AFCON, that he was devastated by the international retirement of long-term Super Eagles captain, William Troost Ekong and when he would like AFCON to be played if he had the choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See his interview (given after the Champions League match against Tottenham Hotspur) here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OKfWquVHbh0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OKfWquVHbh0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (December 15th 2025) Slavia Prague defender Igoh Ogbu has been called up by Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle for the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,17],"tags":[1628,292,1464,668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}