{"id":974,"date":"2025-05-02T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2025-05-02T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:48:10","slug":"i-want-to-play-for-atletico-for-much-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/i-want-to-play-for-atletico-for-much-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I want to play for Atletico for much longer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-768x514.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his role as a driving force from the bench, Alexander Sorloth was very happy with his time at Atletico Madrid. The Norwegian expressed his desire to continue under Simeone&#8217;s orders for a long time to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atletico Madrid striker Alexander Sorloth said he wants to stay with the Rojiblanco side \u2018much, much\u2019 longer, stressed that he has a &#8220;very good relationship&#8221; with coach Diego Simeone and stressed that &#8220;it&#8217;s a pleasure&#8221; to play for his current team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to play for Atletico Madrid much, much (longer),&#8221; said the Norwegian striker during an interview with \u201cRadio Marca\u201d on Thursday. Sorloth has 17 goals in his first season at Atletico, of which he recalled that &#8220;the first few months of the season were difficult&#8221; because he was not scoring goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But since October I played very well, often from the bench, but I&#8217;ve scored goals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m in the eleven and I scored a goal the other day. I&#8217;m very happy. I live in Madrid, it&#8217;s my favourite city, I&#8217;m very happy and it&#8217;s a pleasure to play for Atletico Madrid,&#8221; he said.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his role as a driving force from the bench, Ale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","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\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}