{"id":35284,"date":"2025-09-21T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35284\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:23:09","slug":"its-maradona-esque-stephen-kennys-high-praise-for-unusual-dribbling-prowess-of-kian-leavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35284\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s Maradona-esque\u201d \u2013 Stephen Kenny\u2019s high praise for \u2018unusual\u2019 dribbling prowess of Kian Leavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St Patrick's Athletic's Kian Leavy has been making a big impression of late. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3239444.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic&#8217;s Kian Leavy has been making a big impression of late. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stephen Kenny temporarily checked himself before veering into comparison to describe the dribbling style of a player that is really starting to turn heads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It might be strange for Kian Leavy to see his name in a headline with Diego Maradona, but the Argentine great sprung to the mind of the St Patrick\u2019s Athletic manager when he was asked about the qualities that the Ardee man possesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic&#8217;s Kian Leavy has been making a big impression of late. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile Stephen Kenny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-35284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}