{"id":825363,"date":"2025-02-08T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/daniel-daga-who-idolises-kante-and-bissouma-reacts-to-first-goal-for-norwegian-champions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:12:06","slug":"daniel-daga-who-idolises-kante-and-bissouma-reacts-to-first-goal-for-norwegian-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/daniel-daga-who-idolises-kante-and-bissouma-reacts-to-first-goal-for-norwegian-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Daga who idolises Kante and Bissouma reacts to first goal for Norwegian champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Flying Eagles midfielder Daniel Daga has expressed his excitement after scoring his first goal for Norwegian champions Molde FK, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/daniel-daga-who-dreams-of-playing-for-liverpool-and-chelsea-clears-medical-ahead-of-molde-fk-move.html\">18-year-old joined Molde<\/a> from One Rocket following his impressive loan stint with nine-time Nigeria Premier Football League champions Enyimba and is adjusting quickly to life in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>In his debut game for the club, the Nigerian youngster rose to meet a corner kick and headed the only goal past Felix Jakobsson, sealing victory for his side in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First goal for Daga  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/23w0pPdtGY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/23w0pPdtGY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Molde Fotballklubb (@Molde_FK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Molde_FK\/status\/1887595871816016255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the game, an excited Daga took to his social media platform <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dagadanielddd\/status\/1887586342978097322?s=46&#038;t=b9FUBUNstw3lkK85djbEwA\" target=\"_blank\">to express his joy<\/a>, writing, <em>\u201cFirst goal in blue. Great feeling!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the highly rated young midfielder, who impressed for Nigeria\u2019s U-20 team in the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina, revealed former Chelsea star N\u2019Golo Kante and Tottenham\u2019s Yves Bissouma as his idols.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[Yves] Bissouma in Tottenham, but before, I loved [N\u2019Golo] Kante. In terms of ball-playing, I play like Bissouma, but for tackling and covering spaces on the pitch, yeah, Kante,\u201d he said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Molde_FK\/status\/1883443476102291849\" target=\"_blank\">via his club during his official unveiling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Watch the video here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Get to know our newest signing, Daniel Daga!  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mv1zhHaLIP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mv1zhHaLIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Molde Fotballklubb (@Molde_FK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Molde_FK\/status\/1883443476102291849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Nigerian youth international has been tipped for a bright future, with his defensive and ball-winning abilities standing out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146885\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/daniel-daga-who-dreams-of-playing-for-liverpool-and-chelsea-clears-medical-ahead-of-molde-fk-move.html\/daniel-daga-in-action-for-enyimba-fc\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Daniel-Daga-in-action-for-Enyimba-FC.jpeg\" alt=\"Soccer Daniel Daga\" width=\"1928\" height=\"2048\"  ><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146885\">Daniel Daga in action for Enyimba FC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Daga, who admires <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2023\/05\/daniel-daga-the-flying-eagles-phenomenon-drawing-interest-from-ac-milan-and-liverpool.html\">Real Madrid and Liverpool<\/a>, will now aim to build on this performance as he looks to cement his place in Molde\u2019s midfield and further his career in European football.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soccer Ayomide Oguntimehin\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ayomide-Oguntimehin-pics-150x150.jpg\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/ayomide-oguntimehin-2\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAyomide Oguntimehin\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAyomide Oguntimehin is a CAF-accredited sports journalist and Editor at Soccernet.ng, with a proven track record in conducting interviews with Super Eagles stars such as William Troost-Ekong, Taiwo Awoniyi, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Ademola Lookman, and many others. He has also made a significant impact in breaking transfer news stories.<\/p>\n<p>Grounded in video editing, video journalism, social media management, and content strategy, Ayomide brings a wealth of expertise to his work.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/02\/daniel-daga-kante-bissouma-norwegian.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Ayomide Oguntimehin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Flying Eagles midfielder Daniel Daga has expressed his excitement after scoring his first goal for Norwegian champions Molde FK, Soccernet.ng reports. The 18-year-old joined Molde from One Rocket following his impressive loan stint with nine-time Nigeria Premier Football League champions Enyimba and is adjusting quickly to life in Norway. In his debut game for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":825364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1326,141524,2005],"tags":[7091,141523],"class_list":{"0":"post-825363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daniel","8":"category-idolises","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-daniel","11":"tag-idolises"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}