{"id":18656,"date":"2012-05-30T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T08:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2024-02-15T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:59:08","slug":"former-newcastle-enforcer-will-become-atletico-madrids-18656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/former-newcastle-enforcer-will-become-atletico-madrids-18656\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Newcastle Enforcer Will Become Atletico Madrid&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atletico Madrid have announced that Turkey international Emre Belozoglu is to join the club as a free agent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The experienced midfielder has seen his contract at Fenerbahce expire and he has taken the decision to continue his career in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old will pen a two-year contract at Vicente Calderon once he has completed a medical.<\/p>\n<p>The former Inter Milan<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.lingospot.com\/spot\/image\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0and Newcastle enforcer will become Atletico&#8217;s second signing of the summer, with a deal for Porto forward Cristian Rodriguez\u00a0already wrapped up.<\/p>\n<h2>Arda Turan: Emre had everything for La Liga<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Emre has everything he needs to triumph at Atletico,&#8221; said Emre&#8217;s fellow countryman and new club colleague Arda Turan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has shown personality in taking the reins at major clubs and his experience can help us a great deal in key games.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid have announced that Turkey international Emre Belozoglu is to join the club as a free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":18697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,63,1,118,1633,14],"tags":[12737,17011,405,23876,16856,22587,23877,483,23878,492,23875],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey-sport","category-world","tag-arda-turan","tag-arda-turan-atletico-madrid","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-emre-atletico-madrid","tag-emre-belozoglu","tag-emre-belozoglu-racism","tag-ex-newcastle","tag-fenerbahce","tag-former-inter-milan","tag-la-liga","tag-spanish-la-liga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78220,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions\/78220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}