{"id":615576,"date":"2026-09-14T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615576\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:56:08","slug":"brazils-newest-star-psv-captain-mauro-junior-left-speechless-after-shock-selecao-call-up-following-eredivisie-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615576\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s newest star? PSV captain Mauro Junior left speechless after shock Selecao call-up following Eredivisie dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/mijnans-steals-the-show-for-psv-with-a-hat-trick-against-former-club-sparta\/blt533fe5a1876a9a04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">4-1 victory over Sparta<\/a> capped a memorable week for the left-back following his first senior international call-up. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.nl\/voetbal\/artikel\/_\/id\/17252623\/mauro-junior-kan-niet-geloven-dat-hij-een-goddelijke-kanarie-is-het-is-een-eer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">ESPN Nederland<\/a> after the final whistle, he insisted his immediate focus remains firmly on club duties before turning his attention to the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>On the honour of representing his country, he said: &#8220;I am overjoyed and consider it a huge honour to be selected for the Brazilian national team. But first, I want to win the final game before the international break. After that, I can focus entirely on Brazil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;It came as a complete surprise. I didn&#8217;t expect to get called up. I felt proud of myself, but also proud of the team. They helped make this possible for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A commanding 4-1 victory over Sparta capped a memorable week for the left-back following his first senior international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[972,278637,1083,18833,155193,11476,85,207,46,278636,93218,105],"class_list":["post-615576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-australia-vs-brazil","tag-brazil","tag-c-ancelotti","tag-eredivisie","tag-friendlies","tag-il","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-mauro-junior","tag-psv","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615576","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=615576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}