{"id":199825,"date":"2025-12-19T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199825"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:32:13","slug":"troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199825","title":{"rendered":"Troost-Ekong retires from int\u2019l football days before AFCON begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks before the start of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong has announced his retirement from international football. Ekong, 32, who has been with the team for 10 years has earned 83 caps, and his last outing with the Super Eagles was in the World Cup playoff [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Troost-Ekong retires from int\u2019l football days before AFCON begins appeared first on Latest Nigeria News | Top Stories from Ripples Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks before the start of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Super<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins.jpg",739,415,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins.jpg",640,359,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins.jpg",640,359,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins.jpg",739,415,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins.jpg",739,415,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins.jpg",739,415,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins.jpg",739,415,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199825-troost-ekong-retires-from-intl-football-days-before-afcon-begins-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}