{"id":1310,"date":"2023-06-26T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/emmanuel-okoye-meet-the-nigerian-who-honed-his-american-football-dreams-in-england\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T01:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T01:45:06","slug":"emmanuel-okoye-meet-the-nigerian-who-honed-his-american-football-dreams-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/emmanuel-okoye-meet-the-nigerian-who-honed-his-american-football-dreams-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Okoye: Meet the Nigerian who honed his American football dreams in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC East Midlands Today speaks to Nigerian Emmanuel Okoye, who moved to the English market town of Loughborough to fast-track his rise as an American football prospect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The 18-year-old has been recruited by the University of Tennessee after impressing at the NFL Academy based at Loughborough University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Two-time Super Bowl champion Osi Umenyiora, who has helped Okoye in his rapid rise after only taking up the sport a year ago, also talks about opportunities being created by the programme in England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/american-football\/65694495?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC East Midlands Today speaks to Nigerian Emmanuel Okoye, who moved to the English market town of Loughborough to fast-track his rise as an American football prospect. The 18-year-old has been recruited by the University of Tennessee after impressing at the NFL Academy based at Loughborough University. Two-time Super Bowl champion Osi Umenyiora, who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}