{"id":7804,"date":"2026-06-09T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:23:41","slug":"defensive-legends-virgil-van-dijk-meets-up-with-fabio-cannavaro-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7804","title":{"rendered":"Defensive legends: Virgil van Dijk meets up with Fabio Cannavaro in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"css-1q862e8\">\n<div class=\"css-16p0iqu\">\n<div class=\"css-qn9caw\"><span class=\"css-1n6rhip\">Published<!-- --> <time datetime=\"2026-06-09\"><span class=\"css-18l3nyz\">2 hours ago<\/span><\/time> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sam Williams<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Virgil van Dijk presented Fabio Cannavaro with his shirt in a meeting between defensive legends past and present.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-gtn94w\">\n<div class=\"css-1l9nrdv\">\n<div class=\"css-ys7460\">\n<p>Liverpool captain Van Dijk <strong>skippered the Netherlands to a 2-1 win over Uzbekistan<\/strong> \u2013 a victory earned by two Cody Gakpo penalties \u2013 in their final World Cup warm-up game in New York on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cannavaro, who captained Italy to World Cup glory in 2006 and won the Ballon d\u2019Or that same year, is now head coach of Uzbekistan and after the friendly, the iconic former centre-back was gifted Van Dijk\u2019s match-worn jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Watch their meeting in the clip below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1m3m4y1\">\n<div class=\"css-1q0a9f7\">\n<div class=\"css-19q2gex\">\n<p>You have to accept cookies in order to view this content on our site.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"css-8k3a1v\">Manage Settings <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 15 15\" fill=\"none\" class=\"css-13ybogt\"><path d=\"M5 3l5 5-5 5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"css-1n6rhip\">Published<!-- --> <time datetime=\"2026-06-09\"><span class=\"css-18l3nyz\">2 hours ago<\/span><\/time> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published 2 hours ago By Sam Williams Virgil van Dijk presented Fabio Cannavaro with his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7804","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\/7804","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=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}