{"id":166956,"date":"2025-09-24T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166956\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:25:07","slug":"what-matters-most-bruno-fernandes-makes-rousing-declaration-as-united-honour-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166956\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat matters most\u201d: Bruno Fernandes makes rousing declaration as United honour him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes delivered a heartfelt message after the club honoured him at Carrington for reaching a milestone 100 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes hits century of goals for United<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes reached the 100-goal landmark for United last weekend as the team beat Chelsea 2-1 at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese playmaker opened the scoring after 14 minutes, latching onto a pass from Patrick Dorgu and finishing neatly.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, Fernandes marked his 200th Premier League appearance for United by scoring his 100th goal.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, he became the 23rd man to score a century of goals for the Red Devils.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, Fernandes was presented with framed artwork to commemorate his milestone. Since joining from Sporting Lisbon in 2020, he has been a key figure for United, and the club duly honoured his contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Fernandes expressed gratitude to his teammates and everyone at United for their support, while stressing that personal accolades mean little compared to winning trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes honoured at Carrington<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s director of football, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/bruno-fernandes-gets-framed-artwork-from-jason-wilcox-after-100-goals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jason Wilcox, said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jason Wilcox, said<\/a>, \u201cThis is just a small presentation of recognition to Bruno, our captain. As you know, he\u2019s scored 100 goals for Manchester United, which is an amazing achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBruno, as you know, you all know him well, is a captain who leads by example; to any young players, he\u2019s a shining example of what it takes to be a top, top player and he\u2019s a fantastic representation of our football club and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes remarked, \u201cObviously, thanks to everyone from day one. All the assists, all the goals, all the penalties that you guys you gave me the chance to score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy and proud to achieve this big number. It wasn\u2019t something I was dreaming about when I grew up to become a footballer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, obviously, it\u2019s a privilege for me and I hope that, together with this, we can put a lot of trophies in the cabinet because that is what matters most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>United are back in action on Saturday when they take on Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image Jan Kruger via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easypolls.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:online polls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">online polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Bluesky: @peoplesperson.bsky.social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes delivered a heartfelt message after the club honoured him at Carrington for reaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[6843,18891,49,48,562,2680,86059,561,82,2343],"class_list":["post-166956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-brentford","tag-bruno-fernandes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chelsea","tag-manchester-united","tag-patrick-dorgu","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}