{"id":7986,"date":"2026-06-10T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:23:42","slug":"sick-goal-street-football-and-winning-the-trophy-reds-world-cup-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7986","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sick goal&#8217;, street football and winning the trophy &#8211; Reds&#8217; World Cup memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><strong>Ryan Gravenberch, Netherlands<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>On South Africa 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the first World Cup I watched when I was young. The Dutch team, Holland, came to the final. Unfortunately, they lost. But I think this was one of the best World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome good players (in the Netherlands side), they reached the final and it was a nice World Cup to watch. Unfortunately, Spain had also a really good team with a lot of good players. But this one was nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Alexander Isak, Sweden<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>On Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese balls, if you got hold of these ones out on the street or playing with friends, these were like top-tier balls. Top bins every time! I think my brother got me both of these so I really love these balls. I was very young still but it\u2019s nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Alexis Mac Allister, Argentina<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>On Qatar 2022<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was of course a very special one. My first one. And we were able to win it, which is not easy at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was quite confident (ahead of the final). Of course, we played against a really good team as well, France. But I was really confident because the World Cup didn\u2019t start well with the result against Saudi Arabia, but from there we became a much better team. I think everyone could sense that we had a very good chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I was quite confident. And in the end, it was good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Gravenberch, Netherlands On South Africa 2010 \u201cThis was the first World Cup I watched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7986","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\/7986","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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}