{"id":1943267,"date":"2026-11-10T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943267"},"modified":"2026-11-10T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:55:48","slug":"germany-midfielder-felix-nmecha-defends-celebrations-linked-to-evangelical-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943267","title":{"rendered":"Germany midfielder Felix Nmecha defends celebrations linked to evangelical group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HERZOGENAURACH, Germany (AP) \u2014 Germany and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Felix Nmecha has responded to criticism of goal celebrations linked to an evangelical network by saying they\u2019ve been misunderstood and are not meant to promote \u201cintolerance, discrimination, or hate in any form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/a4207-germany-midfielder-felix-nmecha-defends-celebrations-linked-to-evangelical-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERZOGENAURACH, Germany (AP) \u2014 Germany and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Felix Nmecha has responded to criticism of goal celebrations linked to an evangelical network by saying they\u2019ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1943268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943269,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943267\/revisions\/1943269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}