{"id":647249,"date":"2026-10-15T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647249\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:58:09","slug":"video-these-four-stick-in-my-mind-tottenham-star-micky-van-de-ven-picks-lionel-messi-cristiano-ronaldo-two-legendary-defenders-as-childhood-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647249\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: &#8216;These four stick in my mind&#8217; &#8211; Tottenham star Micky van de Ven picks Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo &#038; two legendary defenders as childhood heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every professional footballer grew up idolising the greats of the game, and Tottenham Hotspur centre-back Micky van de Ven is no exception. Taking a brief break from his defensive duties, the Dutchman shared exactly which legends inspired him the most as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p>While attending the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Ultimate Grudge Match, Van de Ven was put on the spot by GOAL and asked to name the players he loved watching while growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every professional footballer grew up idolising the greats of the game, and Tottenham Hotspur centre-back Micky van de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20870,1998,291121,20872,85,15022,46,15023,176277,4029,191870,105,4028],"class_list":["post-647249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-al-nassr-fc","tag-barcelona","tag-c-puyol","tag-c-ronaldo","tag-il","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-israel","tag-l-messi","tag-m-van-de-ven","tag-real-madrid","tag-s-ramos","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647249","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=647249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}