{"id":406844,"date":"2026-01-11T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406844\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:51:09","slug":"tochi-chukwuani-midfielder-joins-rangers-from-sturm-graz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/406844\/","title":{"rendered":"Tochi Chukwuani: Midfielder joins Rangers from Sturm Graz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sent off for a late challenge on Celtic captain Callum McGregor, a heart problem that scuppered a Serie A move, a Europa League victory over Rangers this season – and now Tochi Chukwuani has joined the Ibrox club.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old has become Rangers first addition of the January transfer window, joining from Sturm Graz for an undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half year deal.<\/p>\n

The Dane began training with Nordsjaelland’s first team at just 14 and was described as “one of the top players for the future”., external<\/a><\/p>\n

He made his senior debut as a 16-year-old and 10 months later became the club’s youngest league scorer.<\/p>\n

He joined Lyngby in 2022, months after La Gazzetta dello Sport reported a transfer to Serie A side Hellas Verona had fallen through because a medical examination found a “small heart defect”, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He went on to play 58 matches in a two-year stint, scoring five goals.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2024, Chukwuani moved abroad for the first time, signing a four-year deal with Austrian outfit Sturm Graz. <\/p>\n

His debut campaign with Graz was a memorable one as he made 27 appearances and scored three times in a title-winning side. He also sampled Champions League football for the first time.<\/p>\n

This season, he has faced both Rangers and Celtic in the Europa League, helping Graz beat the Ibrox club 2-1 in Austria before being sent off three weeks later for a rash challenge on Callum McGregor in a 2-1 defeat in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sent off for a late challenge on Celtic captain Callum McGregor, a heart problem that scuppered a Serie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-406844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}