{"id":54909,"date":"2025-09-27T01:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=54909"},"modified":"2025-09-27T01:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:15:06","slug":"liverpool-winger-ngumoha-signs-first-professional-contract-at-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/liverpool-winger-ngumoha-signs-first-professional-contract-at-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Winger Ngumoha Signs First Professional Contract at 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s 17-year-old forward Rio Ngumoha has signed his first professional contract, the Premier League club said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the deal were not disclosed, but British media reported Ngumoha signed a contract until 2028 as three years is the maximum contract term for players under the age of 18 under FA rules.<\/p>\n<p>Ngumoha came off the bench and scored a 100th-minute winner on his Premier League debut at Newcastle United last month, becoming the club&#8217;s youngest goalscorer. He also featured in Liverpool&#8217;s Champions League victory over Atletico Madrid at Anfield last week.<\/p>\n<p>The England youth international was handed his senior debut in an FA Cup tie with Accrington Stanley in January. He joined Liverpool&#8217;s academy from Chelsea last year and has since made five senior appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s 17-year-old forward Rio Ngumoha has signed his first professional contract, the Premier League club said on Thursday. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but British media reported Ngumoha signed a contract until 2028 as three years is the maximum contract term for players under the age of 18 under FA rules. Ngumoha came &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54910,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54909\/revisions\/54910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}