{"id":4806,"date":"2025-05-08T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/evra-united-legend-delays-his-mma-debut-what-happened-to-the-football-gladiator\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:50:55","slug":"evra-united-legend-delays-his-mma-debut-what-happened-to-the-football-gladiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/evra-united-legend-delays-his-mma-debut-what-happened-to-the-football-gladiator\/","title":{"rendered":"Evra, United legend, delays his MMA debut: What happened to the football &#8220;gladiator&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expected debut of Patrice Evra, former Manchester United player and French national team player, in mixed martial arts (MMA) has been postponed.<\/p>\n\n<p>Originally, the 43-year-old footballer&#8217;s fight was scheduled for May 23 in Paris. However, the Professional Fighters League Europe announced on Thursday that the event will be rescheduled for a later date, yet to be determined.<\/p>\n\n<p>PFL reported that Evra, who retired from football in 2019, has been training in combat alongside MMA star Cedric Doumb\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I have been training alongside the best in the world for years, and they will also tell you that I am ready for this.<\/p><cite>Patrice Evra<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Evra played for Manchester United in almost 400 matches between 2006 and 2014, and on several occasions he captained the team.<\/p>\n\n<p>During his eight years at Old Trafford, he won five Premier League titles and one Champions League.<\/p>\n\n<p>In addition, Evra played for clubs such as Nice, Monaco, Juventus, Marseille and West Ham.<\/p>\n\n<p>He was named France captain at the 2010 World Cup, but was stripped of the captaincy during the tournament after the team went on strike during training.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expected debut of Patrice Evra, former Manchester United player and French national team player, in mixed martial arts (MMA) has been postponed. Originally, the 43-year-old footballer&#8217;s fight was scheduled for May 23 in Paris. However, the Professional Fighters League Europe announced on Thursday that the event will be rescheduled for a later date, yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[143,478,1258,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-4806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-manchester-united","9":"tag-mma","10":"tag-patrice-evra","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","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=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}