{"id":514,"date":"2026-10-04T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=514"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:41:39","slug":"szoboszlai-gets-teammates-backing-as-big-topic-in-locker-room-addressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Szoboszlai gets teammate&#8217;s backing as &#8216;big topic&#8217; in locker room addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominik Szoboszlai has received further backing to become Liverpool\u2019s future captain, with teammate and fellow Hungarian Armin Pecsi praising his leadership qualities.<\/p>\n<p>Andoni Iraola named the 25-year-old one of Liverpool\u2019s vice-captains this summer, while Steven Gerrard and others have also tipped him to eventually succeed Virgil van Dijk.<\/p>\n<p>Szoboszlai already captains Hungary and has worn the Liverpool armband during pre-season. <\/p>\n<p>Pecsi believes he would be \u201chonored and very proud\u201d to captain the Reds one day, while also crediting him with helping him settle at Anfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dominik Szoboszlai has received further backing to become Liverpool\u2019s future captain, with teammate and fellow Hungarian Armin Pecsi praising his leadership qualities. Andoni Iraola named <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=514\" title=\"Szoboszlai gets teammate&#8217;s backing as &#8216;big topic&#8217; in locker room addressed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":515,"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-514","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\/10\/0_GettyImages-2294179055.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}