{"id":353391,"date":"2025-12-18T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:14:08","slug":"how-real-madrid-almost-signed-lennart-karl-before-bayern-munich-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353391\/","title":{"rendered":"How Real Madrid almost signed Lennart Karl before Bayern Munich did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">He had a trial with Real Madrid when he was 10 years old. There were training camps at the regional level, one of them in Gro\u00dfkrotzenburg in the Aschaffenburg region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">From there he progressed to the next round, which was in Memmingen. He prevailed there again and was then invited to Real Madrid and allowed to play in the Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">As you know, the deal with Real Madrid didn\u2019t work out back then. The father later told me that he was very glad about it because he felt it wasn\u2019t really about his son \u2013 but rather about negotiating contracts for big player agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s why it fell through, and looking back, the family certainly doesn\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He had a trial with Real Madrid when he was 10 years old. There were training camps at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43989,126593,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-353391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-and-rumors","tag-bayern-munich-youth","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353391","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=353391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}