{"id":1249,"date":"2025-06-30T19:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:21:41","slug":"gvardiol-these-young-defenders-make-me-feel-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/gvardiol-these-young-defenders-make-me-feel-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Gvardiol: \u201cthese young defenders make me feel old!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-53.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-53.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-53-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-53-768x515.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Josko Gvardiol has expressed his delight at helping Manchester City\u2019s new generation of defenders settle into the team, joking that their youth makes him feel much older ahead of the Club World Cup last-16 tie with Al-Hilal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester City defender Josko Gvardiol has shared his delight at playing a mentoring role for the young defenders who have recently joined the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking ahead of the Club World Cup last-16 clash with Al-Hilal, Gvardiol joked about his age: \u201cI\u2019m getting old! I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m 23 but it\u2019s nice to see these new guys, young guys in the team. When I look at them I feel much older.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Croatia international stressed the importance of supporting new talent, recalling how he himself was helped by more experienced team-mates in his early years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m available for them, to help them as the other ones helped me when I was younger. And I\u2019m happy to have them in the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defender underlined the good performance of the youngsters, who, despite their young age, have proved to be up to the demands of the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josko Gvardiol has expressed his delight at helping Man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}