{"id":388042,"date":"2026-04-12T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/388042\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:58:08","slug":"mendy-says-he-could-see-out-his-career-at-al-ahly-and-he-will-always-remember-buffons-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/388042\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendy says he could see out his career at Al Ahly, and he will always remember Buffon\u2019s example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mendy recalls a heartfelt exchange with Italian goalkeeping great Gianluigi Buffon: \u201cI was a huge fan, and when we faced him in the French league I felt a special joy; after the match, he congratulated me and asked for my shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the swap did not go through immediately, leaving him slightly disappointed yet unwilling to make a fuss.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, while on international duty, Mendy renewed the request through a member of staff. Buffon replied that he remembered the young keeper and admired his progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, on the very day I won The Best award, his shirt finally arrived\u2014one of the happiest days of my career,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mendy recalls a heartfelt exchange with Italian goalkeeping great Gianluigi Buffon: \u201cI was a huge fan, and when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179995,184963,184965,85,46,184964,184966,24484,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-388042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-al-ahli","9":"tag-e-mendy","10":"tag-g-buffon","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-m-jaissle","14":"tag-r-mahrez","15":"tag-saudi-pro-league","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}