{"id":822690,"date":"2026-07-25T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822690\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:37:13","slug":"on-the-move-footballs-youngest-journeymen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822690\/","title":{"rendered":"On the move &#8211; football&#8217;s youngest journeymen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After beginning his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 16, highly rated Croatian midfielder Alen Halilovic earned a permanent move to Barcelona, where he spent two years before joining Hamburg for a further two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his time at the Nou Camp, he played primarily for Barcelona B before spending the 2015\u201316 season on loan at Sporting Gijon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After joining Hamburg in 2016, he was loaned out to La Liga side Las Palmas during the 2017\u201318 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2018, shortly after his 22nd birthday, he signed for AC Milan, the sixth club of his career &#8211; while Italy became the fourth different country in which he had played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfielder later had spells with Birmingham City and Reading. He now plays for Fortuna Sittard in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After beginning his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 16, highly rated Croatian midfielder Alen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-822690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822690","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=822690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}