{"id":31878,"date":"2024-03-19T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/31878\/man-united-midfielder-kobbie-mainoo\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T19:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:10:32","slug":"man-united-midfielder-kobbie-mainoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=31878","title":{"rendered":"Man United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo handed England call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo handed England call-up\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo has been called up to Gareth Southgate&#39;s England squad, the Football Association confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Originally named in the England Under-21 squad, Southgate has now promoted Mainoo to the senior squad, meaning he could make his first team debut in the upcoming friendlies at Wembley against Brazil on Saturday and Belgium three days later.<\/p>\n<p>Mainoo has impressed for <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> this year with two goals and two assists in 21 games in all competitions, and has become a regular fixture in Erik Ten Hag&#39;s side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old has represented England at U17, U18 and U19 levels, but is eligible to switch allegiance to Ghana, where his parents were born.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Kobbie Mainoo has been called up for England. <cite>Eddie Keogh \u2013 The FA\/The FA via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The youngster still spends some of his free time in Ghana and the country&#39;s <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> association confirmed in February that they were keen to convince Mainoo to represent them at international level.<\/p>\n<p>However, sources told ESPN in February that Southgate believed Mainoo had significant potential and wanted to accelerate his progress with England.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reporting from ESPN&#39;s James Olley contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo handed England call-up\u060c Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo has been called up to Gareth Southgate&#39;s England squad, the Football Association confirmed on Tuesday. Originally named in the England Under-21 squad, Southgate has now promoted Mainoo to the senior squad, meaning he could make his first team debut in the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12097,666,4079,12096,6482,32,2242,29],"class_list":["post-31878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-callup","tag-england","tag-handed","tag-kobbie","tag-mainoo","tag-man","tag-midfielder","tag-united"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31880,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878\/revisions\/31880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}