{"id":251,"date":"2026-09-30T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=251"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:12:32","slug":"luis-de-la-fuente-confirms-what-we-already-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Luis de la Fuente confirms what we already know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has named Liverpool midfielder Florian Wirtz as the German player he would love to have in his squad, joking that the 23-year-old unfortunately does not have a Spanish passport.<\/p>\n<p>De la Fuente praised Wirtz\u2019s quality and said he \u201creally likes the way he plays,\u201d offering the Liverpool star some timely recognition amid debate over his inconsistent start at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz has faced criticism since his big-money move, but the World Cup-winning coach\u2019s comments underline the high regard in which the midfielder is still held across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has named Liverpool midfielder Florian Wirtz as the German player he would love to have in his squad, joking <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=251\" title=\"Luis de la Fuente confirms what we already know\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot_2026-09-30-13-08-17-536_com.facebook.lite-edit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}