{"id":267027,"date":"2020-10-07T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=267027"},"modified":"2020-10-07T21:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:10:45","slug":"arsenal-confirms-deal-for-marcelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=267027","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal confirms deal for Marcelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Arsenal has confirmed that attacking midfielder, Marcelo Flores, has signed his first professional contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo, 17, joined Arsenal as a scholar from Ipswich in the summer of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal disclosed this in a statement via the club\u2019s official website on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cMarcelo Flores has signed his first professional contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 17-year-old first joined us as a Scholar from Ipswich in July 2019. Known for his agility, pace and creativity, Marcelo is a versatile attacking player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Mexican Youth international, Marcelo already featured in our U18 Premier League side last season, as well as two appearances in the FA Youth Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has since played consistently for our U18s, and last weekend scored twice in our 3-2 win over Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe congratulate Marcelo on his first pro contract and look forward to supporting him with his continued development.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal has confirmed that attacking midfielder, Marcelo Flores, has signed his first professional contract with the club. Marcelo, 17, joined Arsenal as a scholar from Ipswich in the summer of 2019. Arsenal disclosed this in a statement via the club\u2019s official website on Tuesday. The statement read: \u201cMarcelo Flores has signed his first professional contract. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267028,"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":[4427,9512,8827],"class_list":["post-267027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-epl","tag-marcelo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267027","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=267027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}