{"id":73869,"date":"2023-06-20T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=73869"},"modified":"2023-06-20T18:46:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:46:45","slug":"from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=73869","title":{"rendered":"From UK Tourists to football immortality: Nigeria\u2019s longest-living international player passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria mourn the loss of Titus Okere, its oldest former international footballer, who passed away at 94, Soccernet.ng reports.\u00a0 Okere, a member of Nigeria\u2019s inaugural national team known as the UK Tourists of 1949, breathed his last in Kent, UK. Frances Okere, his granddaughter, informed Sports Village Square of his demise&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2023\/06\/from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria mourn the loss of Titus Okere, its oldest former international footballer, who passed away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.jpg",504,468,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away-300x279.jpg",300,279,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.jpg",504,468,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.jpg",504,468,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.jpg",504,468,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.jpg",504,468,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.jpg",504,468,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away.jpg",504,468,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/73869-from-uk-tourists-to-football-immortality-nigerias-longest-living-international-player-passes-away-504x410.jpg",504,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73869","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=73869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}