{"id":191228,"date":"2020-02-05T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191228"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:08:36","slug":"epl-di-maria-hits-out-at-man-utd-for-making-him-wear-no-7-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191228","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Di Maria hits out at Man Utd for making him wear no.7 shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Angel Di Maria has hit out at Manchester United, for forcing him to wear their iconic no. 7 shirt during his spell at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina forward joined United from Real Madrid, in a then club-record \u00a359.7million transfer in August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>After his arrival, Di Maria asked for the no.11 shirt, which Adnan Januzaj was wearing at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he was pressured to taking the no.7 shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Di Maria spent only a season with United, before joining PSG in a \u00a344.3m deal in August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Ligue 1 why he took the no.11 shirt with the Ligue 1 champions, he replied: \u201cI don\u2019t really know. When I arrived, I saw that the No 11 was available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shirt No I wore a lot when I was younger and I was keen to get once again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Real Madrid, No 11 was already taken, so I took 22. At Manchester United they gave me No 7, I didn\u2019t get a choice. I would have liked 11 but there we are. Here, I had a choice, so I chose 11!\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Di Maria has hit out at Manchester United, for forcing him to wear their iconic no. 7 shirt during his spell at Old Trafford. The Argentina forward joined United from Real Madrid, in a then club-record \u00a359.7million transfer in August 2014. After his arrival, Di Maria asked for the no.11 shirt, which Adnan Januzaj [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14190,8922,13337,4430,5319],"class_list":["post-191228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-angel-dimaria","tag-man-united","tag-moyes","tag-psg","tag-tottenham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}