{"id":303460,"date":"2025-11-24T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303460\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:13:08","slug":"lennart-karl-reveals-his-childhood-idolit-is-not-shocking-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303460\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennart Karl reveals his childhood idol\u2026it is not shocking at all."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lennart Karl is a left-footed, right-sided player who loves to dribble, maneuver in tight spaces and has a great eye for a pass. It really should not come as a surprise who his childhood idol is. \u201cSince my childhood, [Inter Miami footballer] Lionel Messi has definitely been my idol,\u201d the Bayern Munich youngster admitted in a recent interview with the DFB, as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1988624031868707025?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>, when asked if he had played against his idol yet. \u201cUnfortunately, I haven\u2019t played against him yet [laughs].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The odds of them playing against each other do seem very slim, considering the former FC Barcelona star and he play on different continents now. But crazier things have happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Though Messi might be his idol, he revealed a few months ago that he has a different role model. That role model is a certain Arsenal FC playmaker: \u201cYes, Martin \u00d8degaard. He\u2019s also a left-footer, plays in the playmaker position, has good vision and a good shot,\u201d Karl explained, as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/fcbayern.com\/en\/news\/2025\/04\/lennart-karl-interview-i-want-to-establish-myself-at-bayern\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern\u2019s official website<\/a>. \u201cHe also caught the eye of a big club [Real Madrid] early on and ultimately developed into a world-class player over several loan spells. He\u2019s shown that patience and mentality are just as important as talent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennart Karl is a left-footed, right-sided player who loves to dribble, maneuver in tight spaces and has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[126593,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-303460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich-youth","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303460","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=303460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}