{"id":295664,"date":"2011-03-09T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/09\/nigeria-sam-ameobi-joins-flying-eagles\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:41:53","slug":"nigeria-sam-ameobi-joins-flying-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/nigeria-sam-ameobi-joins-flying-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Sam Ameobi Joins Flying Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.2071185157\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.champion.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6086cdc7champion180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Champion (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Daily Champion (Lagos)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p> 9 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Sam Ameobi, younger brother of Newcastle United star Shola Ameobi, has joined up with Nigeria&#8217;s Flying Eagles squad in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Flying Eagles coach, John Obuh said that the younger Ameobi teamed up with the Flying Eagles early Monday and even trained with the rest of the squad later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will go along with us to Dubai, where we will play two friendly matches against Egypt and Saudi Arabia. We will therefore have a chance to fully assess the player there,&#8221; Obuh disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Sam is a striker who can also play as a left winger. He is the third Ameobi to join Newcastle United. His immediate older brother, Tomi, is now at Leeds United after passing through the Newcastle Academy just like big brother Shola.<\/p>\n<p>The big Lionel Messi fan will be 19 in May. He is already a six-footer and joined Newcastle Academy in July 2008. He features for the Newcastle reserves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103090623.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Sam Ameobi Joins Flying Eagles\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Sam Ameobi Joins Flying Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 9 March 2011 Sam Ameobi, younger brother of Newcastle United star Shola Ameobi, has joined up with Nigeria&#8217;s Flying Eagles squad in Turkey. Flying Eagles coach, John Obuh said that the younger Ameobi teamed up with the Flying Eagles early Monday and even trained with the rest of the squad later in the day. &#8220;He will go along with us to Dubai, where we will play two friendly matches against Egypt and Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Sam Ameobi Joins Flying Eagles - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/nigeria-sam-ameobi-joins-flying-eagles\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Sam Ameobi Joins Flying Eagles - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"9 March 2011 Sam Ameobi, younger brother of Newcastle United star Shola Ameobi, has joined up with Nigeria&#039;s Flying Eagles squad in Turkey. 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