{"id":28064,"date":"2025-08-25T06:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rooney-praises-max-dowman-the-arsenal-gem-dazzling-football\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:18:07","slug":"rooney-praises-max-dowman-the-arsenal-gem-dazzling-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/rooney-praises-max-dowman-the-arsenal-gem-dazzling-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooney praises Max Dowman: The Arsenal gem dazzling football"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wayne Rooney Predicts a Bright Future for Arsenal&#8217;s Young Prospect, Max Dowman<\/h2>\n\nThe legendary footballer Wayne Rooney has expressed his admiration for Arsenal&#8217;s young talent, Max Dowman, predicting a &#8220;massive&#8221; future for the player after his impressive Premier League debut.\n\nDowman, an attacking midfielder, became the second-youngest player to represent Arsenal, coming on as a substitute at 15 years and 234 days during the 5-0 victory over Leeds. His 26-minute performance included winning a penalty, which was converted by Viktor Gy\u00f6keres.\n\nRooney, who debuted with Everton at 16 in 2002, recalled his own experience and praised Dowman.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Playing at that age in the Premier League is crazy. His future is very bright, he is going to have a massive future.<\/p><cite>Wayne Rooney<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0825%2Fr1536412_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Max Dowman en su debut con el Arsenal\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nRooney highlighted the importance of Dowman adapting quickly to media attention and expectations. &#8220;It&#8217;s something you really need to get used to quickly because it can be overwhelming,&#8221; Rooney commented.\n\nThe former England captain added that Dowman seems &#8220;very sensible&#8221; and hopes he can handle the situation and understand what awaits him.\n\nEthan Nwaneri, Dowman&#8217;s teammate, remains the youngest player in Premier League history.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney Predicts a Bright Future for Arsenal&#8217;s Young Prospect, Max Dowman The legendary footballer Wayne Rooney has expressed his admiration for Arsenal&#8217;s young talent, Max Dowman, predicting a &#8220;massive&#8221; future for the player after his impressive Premier League debut. Dowman, an attacking midfielder, became the second-youngest player to represent Arsenal, coming on as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,6572,139,7785],"class_list":{"0":"post-28064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-max-dowman","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-rooney"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28064","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=28064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}