{"id":280490,"date":"2025-11-12T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280490\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:48:08","slug":"david-brooks-new-dad-determined-to-realise-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280490\/","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks: New dad determined to realise World Cup dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cancer-free and a new dad, David Brooks is more determined than ever to realise his World Cup dream. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After six months of gruelling chemotherapy, Brooks was given the all-clear in May 2022, putting him in contention to make Rob Page&#8217;s Wales squad for the tournament in Qatar later that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the 28-year-old Bournemouth midfielder admits he &#8220;pushed a little too hard&#8221; and a hamstring injury delayed his comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three years on and Brooks is &#8220;incredibly motivated&#8221; in helping Wales, now led by Craig Bellamy, qualify for next summer&#8217;s finals in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the biggest honours, going to those tournaments and representing your country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The full focus is trying to help the gaffer and the team make that dream come true.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cancer-free and a new dad, David Brooks is more determined than ever to realise his World Cup dream.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-280490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280490","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=280490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}