{"id":479682,"date":"2025-10-07T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/479682\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:14:10","slug":"noah-atubolu-set-to-snub-super-eagles-for-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/479682\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Atubolu set to snub Super Eagles for Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freiburg goalkeeper, Noah Atubolu, could be set to snub Nigeria for Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Atubolu has been called up by the German Football Association ahead their upcoming 2026 World Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has impressed for the last seasons and was on the radar of Super Eagles coaches.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Germany to Nigerian parents and has been playing for the under 21s of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>But according to FIFA rules, Atubolu can still play for Nigeria despite playing for Germany at youth level.<\/p>\n<p>However, this latest invitation to play for Germany\u2019s senior team could end that possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Atubolu has been brought in to replace Oliver Baumann who has been excluded because of illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freiburg goalkeeper, Noah Atubolu, could be set to snub Nigeria for Germany. Atubolu has been called up by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,87262,132197],"class_list":{"0":"post-479682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-noah-atubolu","12":"tag-super-eagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479682","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=479682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}