{"id":452182,"date":"2026-02-01T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452182\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:27:09","slug":"wow-what-am-i-doing-here-phone-call-from-nfl-legend-tom-brady-left-birmingham-new-boy-carlos-vicente-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452182\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wow, what am I doing here!\u2019 &#8211; Phone call from NFL legend Tom Brady left Birmingham new boy Carlos Vicente stunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vicente said of his move: \u201cThese past two weeks have been really intense, but when I heard about\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0I just felt really happy, really interested about the project here. I&#8217;m really happy that finally I can come here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the opportunity, the project, how much they tell me they wanted me. That&#8217;s really important to me to feel myself, like they really want me so I think all things came together for me to come here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a lot of conversations with Craig [Gardner], with Chris [Davies], even with the owner, Tom Brady and Tom Wagner, we talked a lot. They really want me to be here, so I&#8217;m really happy that finally I am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was incredible. Yesterday, when we were driving here, this guy put me on with Tom Brady on the phone, and I said \u2018Wow, what am I doing here?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it&#8217;s really exciting when someone like him calls you like that and tells you that you are important for him. I\u2019m really proud of this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vicente said of his move: \u201cThese past two weeks have been really intense, but when I heard about\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,15579,233467,9663,179514,41288,593,85,2356],"class_list":["post-452182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-birmingham","tag-c-vicente","tag-championship","tag-deportivo-alaves","tag-laliga","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452182","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=452182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}