{"id":387448,"date":"2025-08-31T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387448\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:52:10","slug":"hugo-ekitike-receives-first-senior-france-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/387448\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ekitike receives first senior France call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Hugo Ekitike receives first senior France call-up\" title=\"Hugo Ekitike receives first senior France call-up\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hugo-Ekitike-310825_c5e5be669128141ad2ce34caf43909a7.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 56 minutes ago <\/p>\n<p>By Joe Urquhart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Liverpool forward Hugo Ekitike has earned a first senior international call-up for France.<\/p>\n<p>The striker &#8211; who joined the Reds from Eintracht Frankfurt earlier this summer &#8211; had previously been capped by his country up to U21 level.<\/p>\n<p>Ekitike has now secured a senior call and will be included in Didier Deschamps&#8217; squad for the upcoming international break as a replacement for the injured Rayan Cherki.<\/p>\n<p>France will take on Ukraine (September 5) and Iceland (September 9) in World Cup qualifying action.<\/p>\n<p>Published 56 minutes ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 56 minutes ago By Joe Urquhart Liverpool forward Hugo Ekitike has earned a first senior international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1050,2000,299,1051,36,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-387448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-reds","25":"tag-salah","26":"tag-the-reds","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}