{"id":181881,"date":"2025-10-01T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181881\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:21:12","slug":"jacob-dickson-reveals-he-once-dreamed-of-playing-for-man-united-like-his-idol-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181881\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Dickson reveals he once dreamed of playing for Man United like his idol Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/television\/news\/From-Bahubali-s-fight-to-lasting-trauma-Boxer-Jacob-Dickson-shares-his-story-Sports-Check-135430\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16451260.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghanaian cruiserweight boxer, Jacob Dickson\" title=\"Ghanaian cruiserweight boxer, Jacob Dickson\" width=\"295\" height=\"165\" \/> play video<\/a>Ghanaian cruiserweight boxer, Jacob Dickson<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghanaian cruiserweight boxer, Jacob Dickson has revealed his boyhood dreams, which lay far from the boxing ring, as he confessed his deep passion for football that once shaped his youth.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on GhanaWeb\u2019s Sport Check show with Joel Eshun, Dickson shared, \u201cI didn\u2019t want to become a boxer, never thought about it. I wanted to be a football player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen growing up I support Manchester United and idolize Christiano Ronaldo, I play inter schools competition as a striker and they call me \u2018Ronaldo,&#8221; he shared. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Ayitey-Powers-and-NSA-boss-Yaw-Ampofo-Ankrah-smoke-peace-pipe-2002870\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ayitey Powers and NSA boss Yaw Ampofo Ankrah smoke peace pipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But things changed when fate introduced him to trainer Kayiloko, leading Dickson to join the boxing team and swap his football boots for boxing gloves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I met Kayiloko and joined the team and here we are. Everything happens for a reason,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest episode of Sports Check with Boxer Jacob Dickson below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>ALL\/JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"play videoGhanaian cruiserweight boxer, Jacob Dickson Ghanaian cruiserweight boxer, Jacob Dickson has revealed his boyhood dreams, which lay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-181881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}