{"id":10180,"date":"2018-06-28T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10180"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:58:45","slug":"ighalo-admits-error-pleads-as-family-gets-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10180","title":{"rendered":"Ighalo admits error, pleads as family gets death threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"main-header\">\n<div class=\"top-menu\n\t\t sticky-scroll-up\t\t contain-to-grid\t\t\t show-for-small-only\"><\/p>\n<nav class=\"top-bar\" data-topbar=\"\" data-sticky_height=\"0\" data-distance=\"245\" data-options=\"sticky_on: small; back_text: Back\">By\u00a0<strong>NAN.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"inner_wrapper\" class=\"inner_wrapper hide-on-mobile-menu \">\n<div class=\"row full-width\">\n<div class=\"inner_content\">\n<div class=\"row has-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"post-99180 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news tag-odion-ighalo\">\n<div class=\"row vc_row in-container\">\n<div class=\"medium-8 column left\">\n<article id=\"post-99180\" data-postid=\"99180\" data-guid=\"http:\/\/www.nan.ng\/?p=99180\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.nan.ng\/news\/failure-to-score-ighalo-reacts-to-death-threat-to-family\/\">\n<div class=\"row collapse article-content-wrap\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-9 right column\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"post-body  xt-post-content\">\nSuper Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has reacted to the alleged death threat issued to his family in Lagos on the social media due to his failure to score goals from clear-cut opportunities against Argentina, saying it was not deliberate.<br \/>\nIghalo, who replaced Kelechi Ihanacho in the second half of the match between Nigeria and Argentina in the ongoing World Cup in Russia, failed to convert a through pass from Ahmed Musa had incurred the anger of fans.<br \/>\nNigerian fans strongly believed that if Ighalo had scored the goal, it would have seen the Super Eagles through to the Round of 16 of the World Cup.<br \/>\nSpeaking through his Social Media timeline, Ighalo, who was involved in Nigeria\u2019s qualification for the World Cup, said that he regretted not scoring the crucial goal.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is a great experience to play at the World Cup and I enjoyed every moment of it, but sometimes things don\u2019t work the way you want.<br \/>\n\u201cBut life has to go on, I am grateful to God I did not sustain any injury,\u2019\u2019 he said.<br \/>\nAfter the match which generated a lot of ill-comments from fans, the Changchun Yatai F.C. of China\u2019s striker, apologised to Nigerians and assumed personal responsibility for the blunder.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0NAN. Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has reacted to the alleged death threat issued to his family in Lagos on the social media due to his failure to score goals from clear-cut opportunities against Argentina, saying it was not deliberate. Ighalo, who replaced Kelechi Ihanacho in the second half of the match between Nigeria and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}