{"id":632966,"date":"2026-10-01T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632966\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:14:09","slug":"xavis-greek-selfie-fever-netherlands-boss-plots-van-dijk-position-shake-up-after-defender-drops-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632966\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi&#8217;s Greek selfie fever! Netherlands boss plots Van Dijk position shake-up after defender drops out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in his pre-match press conference, Xavi revealed that he has spoken to Virgil van Dijk about potentially shifting from his customary left-sided central defensive role to the right. While Van Dijk traditionally prefers playing on the left, the manager confirmed the captain is ready to adapt for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Jurrien Timber stands as the alternative candidate to step straight into the backline after proving his fitness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He took a knock against Serbia,&#8221; Xavi explained regarding Van Hecke. &#8220;He is a warrior, but it really wasn&#8217;t possible. We have 23 players, so plenty of reserves. Van Dijk can play on the right side perfectly, and if the team needs him there, he will be there for the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking in his pre-match press conference, Xavi revealed that he has spoken to Virgil van Dijk about potentially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[916,282296,85,46,12512,105,252612,181460],"class_list":["post-632966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-greece","tag-greece-vs-netherlands","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-netherlands","tag-sports","tag-uefa-nations-league-a","tag-x-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632966","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=632966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}