{"id":62166,"date":"2018-12-22T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=62166"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:27:57","slug":"uefa-names-top-young-players-of-2018-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/uefa-names-top-young-players-of-2018-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA names top young players of 2018 Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The UEFA picked out a team of young football players of the UEFA Champions League this calendar year.<\/h2>\n<p>A 21-year-old Turkish footballer Cengiz Under, who plays for Italy&#8217;s Roma, was also in the 2018 Breakthrough Team of UEFA.<\/p>\n<p>He &#8220;helped Roma to last season&#8217;s semis and has kicked on this term thanks to his pace, creativity and lethal left foot. Scored three group goals,&#8221; UEFA said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The players were selected by the criteria of aged 24 or under and UEFA Champions League debut in 2018 or only limited prior experience and made a major leap this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The young players of the team are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper: Odisseas Vlachodimos, 24 (Benfica)<\/p>\n<p>Defender: Milan Skriniar, 23 (Inter Milan)<\/p>\n<p>Defender: Matthijs de Ligt, 19 (Ajax)<\/p>\n<p>Defender: Andy Robertson, 24 (Liverpool)<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder: Frenkie de Jong, 21 (Ajax)<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder: Houssem Aouar, 20 (Lyon)<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder: Arthur, 22 (Barcelona)<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder: Nikola Vlasic, 21 (CSKA)<\/p>\n<p>Forward: Cengiz Under, 21 (Roma)<\/p>\n<p>Forward: Hirving Lozano, 23 (PSV)<\/p>\n<p>Forward: Jadon Sancho, 18 (Dortmund)<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UEFA picked out a team of young football players of the UEFA Champions League this calendar year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,135,127],"tags":[77888,377,1722],"class_list":["post-62166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-football","category-sport","tag-cengiz-under","tag-champions-league","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62166","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}