{"id":844421,"date":"2025-04-29T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/it-would-mean-everything-super-eagles-star-eyes-league-trophy-despite-outstanding-personal-record\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:12:02","slug":"it-would-mean-everything-super-eagles-star-eyes-league-trophy-despite-outstanding-personal-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/it-would-mean-everything-super-eagles-star-eyes-league-trophy-despite-outstanding-personal-record\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt would mean everything\u201d \u2013 Super Eagles star eyes league trophy despite outstanding personal record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles and KRC Genk forward, Toluwalase Emmanuel Arokadare, has his gaze fixed on winning the Jupiler Pro League despite his side\u2019s recent slip in form, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has been in great goalscoring form for Thorsten Fink\u2019s side this season, scoring 22 goals and providing five assists in 41 games across all competitions, drawing interest from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/bayern-munich-want-tolu-arokodare.html\">Bayern Munich<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Genk have stumbled in their chase for the league title, winning just one of their last five games. They\u2019re now third, three points behind league leaders, Union St. Gilloise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imago1061213553-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158225\">100 games for KRC GENK Tolu Arokodare with De Conde Dimitri, sports director of Luc Hooybergs, ceo of KRC Genk. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/two-super-eagles-stars-to-compete-for-jupiler-award.html\">Two Super Eagles stars to compete for prestigious Jupiler League award first won by Daniel Amokachi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/benfica-to-reignite-pursuit-of-super-eagles-star.html\">Benfica to reignite pursuit of Super Eagles star despite Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund links<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/arokodare-genk-royal-antwerp.html\"><strong>Arokodare highlights Genk\u2019s title plans despite dropping points against Royal Antwerp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imago1061312908-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158232\">Tolu Arokodare celebrates scoring a goal with teammates during the Jupiler Pro League Champions Play-Off match between Royal Antwerp FC and KRC Genk. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arokodare has hit a new high this season, scoring the most goals (in a single campaign) in his career, and making his Super Eagles debut. Still, the former FC Koln striker admits it\u2019s the league title that\u2019ll make all his personal achievements worth something at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt feels great, honestly. I try not to overthink it \u2014 my main focus is winning the title. Scoring 20 goals is fantastic, but the aim is to win the top prize with this club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning the league would mean everything. This season, I\u2019ve built a strong bond with the fans, and it would make me truly happy if we could reward them with the title,\u201d the lanky forward said in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsboom.com\/football\/transfer-news-rumours\/genk-tolu-arokodare-premier-league-aspirations-newcastle-fulham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Boom<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/imago1059933160-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153735\">Tolu Arokodare celebrates after scoring a goal to make it 1-0 during the Jupiler Pro League match between KRC Genk and Royale Union Saint-Gilloise. 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The 24-year-old has been in great goalscoring form for Thorsten Fink\u2019s side this season, scoring 22 goals and providing five assists in 41 games across all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36971,1272,2005],"tags":[44104,7839],"class_list":{"0":"post-844421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-it","8":"category-everything","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-it","11":"tag-everything"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844421","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=844421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}