{"id":194329,"date":"2025-03-23T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-sadiq-umar-earns-double-award-nominations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:54:03","slug":"nigerias-sadiq-umar-earns-double-award-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-sadiq-umar-earns-double-award-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Sadiq Umar Earns Double Award Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Since joining Valencia on loan from Real Sociedad, Sadiq has become a beacon of hope in the club&#8217;s fight for survival, scoring crucial goals and reigniting belief among fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Sadiq Umar&#8217;s journey in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laliga.com\/en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Liga<\/a><\/strong> has taken a thrilling turn. The Nigerian forward has been making waves at Valencia, and his exceptional performances in March have earned him nominations for two of La Liga&#8217;s most coveted awards; Player of the Month and Goal of the Month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Since joining Valencia on loan from Real Sociedad, Sadiq&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since joining Valencia on loan from Real Sociedad, Sadiq has become a beacon of hope in the club&#8217;s fight for survival, scoring crucial goals and reigniting belief among fans. Sadiq Umar&#8217;s journey in La Liga has taken a thrilling turn. The Nigerian forward has been making waves at Valencia, and his exceptional performances in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5692,7053,9994,257,393,5761,8801,12523,254,37645],"class_list":["post-194329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-award","tag-double","tag-earns","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-nominations","tag-sadiq","tag-south-africa-today","tag-umar"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}