{"id":476253,"date":"2024-01-17T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T21:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476253"},"modified":"2024-01-17T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T21:47:04","slug":"onana-addresses-critics-my-country-is-the-most-important","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/onana-addresses-critics-my-country-is-the-most-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Onana addresses critics: \u2018My country is the most important\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9 Onana has a high chance of being part of Cameroon&#8217;s lineup for Friday&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations group match vs. holders Senegal after returning to practice with the team today.<\/p>\n<p>Andre missed Cameroon&#8217;s opening match of the competition in the Ivory Coast 2 days ago after he was allowed to stay with the Red Devils and compete in their 2-2 draw against Tottenham in the Premier League the past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Onana flew by charter plane overnight to join his national team after the match at Old Trafford but only arrived moments before his nation\u2019s opening game of Group C vs. Guinea, in which Cameroon came from behind to win a point after 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like choosing between my father and my mother, but Comeroon comes 1<sup>st<\/sup>; that&#8217;s why I\u2019m at the tournament,&#8221; Onana revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let fans continue to criticize me. It\u2019s not something new to me. I do what is in the best interest of Cameroon,&#8221; Andrea claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He thinks Andre Onana&#8217;s late arrival to the Africa Cup Of Nations is disrespectful\ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQ2CKpARXv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rQ2CKpARXv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1747664209926557868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9 Onana has a high chance of being part of Cameroon&#8217;s lineup for Friday&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations group match vs. holders Senegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476254,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22569,17723],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[22571,22572,456],"acf":{"announce":"Andre replies to Cameroon critics after missing the nation\u2019s 1st match in the tournament.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476256,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476253\/revisions\/476256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476253"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476253"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}