{"id":542279,"date":"2026-03-17T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/542279\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:19:08","slug":"sak-hassan-wealdstone-unhappy-as-midfielder-plays-in-baller-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/542279\/","title":{"rendered":"Sak Hassan: Wealdstone unhappy as midfielder plays in Baller League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are aware that Sak Hassan, under contract with Wealdstone FC, appeared in this evening&#8217;s Baller League,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WealdstoneFC\/status\/2033651142652002305\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">said a statement posted on X by the club., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club was not approached for permission for Sak to participate, nor were we made aware of his involvement in advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will now be following up with both the Baller League and the player directly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baller League is in its second season in the United Kingdom &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz9v5d5l5ljo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the televised six-a-side tournament<\/a> where a mixture of former and current professionals, celebrities,  and influencers compete in 30-minute matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the famous team managers in this year&#8217;s event are Alan Shearer, Ian Wright, Chloe Kelly, Angry Ginge and Micah Richards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are aware that Sak Hassan, under contract with Wealdstone FC, appeared in this evening&#8217;s Baller League,&#8221; said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-542279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542279","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=542279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}