{"id":22,"date":"2026-04-16T21:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:06:04","slug":"liverpool-fc-saddened-by-passing-of-alex-manninger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool FC saddened by passing of Alex Manninger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Austrian arrived at Anfield in July 2016 to spend the final season of his lengthy playing career as a Red.<\/p>\n<p>Brought in as an experienced back-up goalkeeper, he featured in two friendly fixtures and was named in the matchday squad on four occasions during that campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Manninger represented a host of clubs in Europe across two decades \u2013 including hometown side Red Bull Salzburg, Arsenal, Fiorentina, Juventus and FC Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p>He earned 33 senior caps for Austria, the first of which came in August 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The thoughts of everyone at LFC are with Alex&#8217;s family and friends at this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RIP Alex Manninger, 1977-2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian arrived at Anfield in July 2016 to spend the final season of his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}