{"id":43844,"date":"2025-09-04T20:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/43844\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:13:12","slug":"if-i-could-go-back-i-would-let-my-achilles-rupture-again-chiedozie-ogbene-opens-up-about-the-revelation-injury-gave-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/43844\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If I could go back, I would let my Achilles rupture again\u2019 \u2013 Chiedozie Ogbene opens up about the revelation injury gave him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Ireland star\u2019s journey from the dark days of injury has led to him becoming a beacon in the Ipswich community\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chiedozie Ogbene: \u2018The injury was very difficult because I had just signed and I was dying to impress.\u2019 Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/66dfe249-aa4c-4343-bbf1-af5394abb3f5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chiedozie Ogbene: \u2018The injury was very difficult because I had just signed and I was dying to impress.\u2019 Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Heimir Hallgrimsson announced his Ireland squad last Tuesday, many fans began asking themselves a question \u2014 what has Chiedozie Ogbene been up to?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s 10 months since that dreadful day in London when the Corkman ruptured his Achilles, his big debut season with Ipswich Town in the Premier League cut short in an instant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 The Ireland star\u2019s journey from the dark days of injury has led to him becoming a beacon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,17065,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-43844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sean-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}