{"id":12226,"date":"2025-06-24T02:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bale-confirms-interest-in-buying-cardiff-city-dream-of-return-to-football\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:53:43","slug":"bale-confirms-interest-in-buying-cardiff-city-dream-of-return-to-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/bale-confirms-interest-in-buying-cardiff-city-dream-of-return-to-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Bale Confirms Interest in Buying Cardiff City: Dream of Return to Football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0616%2Fr1507335_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3175\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nGareth Bale, the Welsh legend, has confirmed his interest in acquiring the club of his hometown, Cardiff City.\n\nAfter participating in a failed attempt to acquire Plymouth Argyle, Bale has set his sights on Cardiff, a League One team.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are interested in getting Cardiff. It&#8217;s my home club, it&#8217;s where I grew up and my uncle used to play for them.<\/p><cite>Gareth Bale<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThese were Bale&#8217;s words on the red carpet of the premiere of &#8220;F1: The Movie&#8221;.\n\nBale, who never played for Cardiff City, started his career in Southampton&#8217;s youth academy, before going through Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid and LAFC.\n\nThe former footballer expressed his desire to take Cardiff to the Premier League.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s a club close to my heart. It&#8217;s where I grew up and I would love to be part of Cardiff&#8217;s growth and take them to the Premier League, where they belong.<\/p><cite>Gareth Bale<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe Cardiff City, who played in the Premier League in the 2018-19 season, were relegated after one season. Currently, the team is in the Championship and has been relegated this season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Bale, the Welsh legend, has confirmed his interest in acquiring the club of his hometown, Cardiff City. After participating in a failed attempt to acquire Plymouth Argyle, Bale has set his sights on Cardiff, a League One team. We are interested in getting Cardiff. It&#8217;s my home club, it&#8217;s where I grew up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4642,2800,3450,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-12226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-cardiff-city","9":"tag-gareth-bale","10":"tag-ownership","11":"tag-premier-league"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}