{"id":189082,"date":"2025-12-13T03:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189082\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T03:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:55:11","slug":"i-was-taught-how-to-win-but-never-how-to-fight-irish-striker-armstrong-oko-flex-on-his-transformative-move-to-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189082\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was taught how to win but never how to fight\u2019 \u2013 Irish striker Armstrong Oko-Flex on his transformative move to Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">After false starts at Celtic and West Ham, the Dubliner is reaping benefits of going into the unknown of Botev Plovdiv\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armstrong Oko-Flex in his Botev Plovdiv gear, where he has racked up six goals and as many assists in his 14 games.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34185148657475471_n.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Armstrong Oko-Flex in his Botev Plovdiv gear, where he has racked up six goals and as many assists in his 14 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For one Irish footballer making his way in the game, the further he travels from home, the more his career progresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The task of forcing his way from Bulgaria into Ireland\u2019s possible World Cup plans \u2013 and perhaps linking up with former underage teammates like Troy Parrott on the road to the 2026 finals \u2013 may prove beyond him, but Dubliner Armstrong Oko-Flex is ending 2025 in a far better place than where he began it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After false starts at Celtic and West Ham, the Dubliner is reaping benefits of going into the unknown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,15133,5082,4700,61,60,112,3568,11290],"class_list":["post-189082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-arsenal","tag-celtic-fc","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-west-ham-united-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}