{"id":1263,"date":"2014-09-02T08:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T08:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2014-09-02T08:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T08:17:21","slug":"alonso-targets-seedorfs-champions-league-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Alonso targets Seedorf\u2019s Champions League record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1264\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alonso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1264\" alt=\"Xabi Alonso\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alonso.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xabi Alonso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Xabi Alonso has targeted winning the UEFA Champions League with a third different club \u2013 a feat only previously managed by Clarence Seedorf, Soccerway reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish midfielder joined Bayern Munich from Real Madrid last week, making his debut in Saturday\u2019s 1-1 Bundesliga draw with Schalke.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso won last season\u2019s Champions League with Real, although he was suspended for the final victory over local rivals Atletico, and also lifted the trophy with Liverpool in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old says he intends to continue his impressive run in Europe\u2019s elite club competition, and could equal the haul of Seedorf, who won the tournament with Ajax, Real and Milan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already won the Champions League with two teams,\u201d he said at a press conference on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019d be a dream come true to win it with a third.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alonso revealed his switch to the Allianz Arena came as something of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole transfer happened very quickly,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s an honour an a privilege to be here in Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xabi Alonso has targeted winning the UEFA Champions League with a third different club \u2013 a feat only previously managed by Clarence Seedorf, Soccerway reports. The Spanish midfielder joined Bayern Munich from Real Madrid last week, making his debut in Saturday\u2019s 1-1 Bundesliga draw with Schalke. Alonso won last season\u2019s Champions League with Real, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Alonso.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-kn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}