{"id":659777,"date":"2026-10-28T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659777\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:30:14","slug":"juventus-alajbegovic-7th-in-the-world-among-young-players-always-on-the-pitch-regardless-of-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659777\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus, Alajbegovic 7th in the world among young players: always on the pitch regardless of formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerim Alajbegovic was Juventus&#8217; only representative among the award nominees at the London Ballon d&#8217;Or ceremony, with the Bosnian in contention for the Kopa Trophy, awarded to the best young player. Born in 2007, he finished seventh. The final ranking was: 1. Yamal, 2. Cubarsi, 3. Zaire-Emery, 4. Lennart Karl, 5. Yan Diomande, 6. Ayyoub Bouaddi, 7. Kerim Alajbegovic, 8. Junior Kroupi, 9. Ibrahim Maza, 10. Johan Manzambi. Not bad for a talent Juventus secured in the summer ahead of Arsenal, thanks in part to an assist from Miralem Pjanic.<\/p>\n<p>After a bright start to the season, Alajbegovic has faded, partly through his own fault but above all because of the team&#8217;s crisis. Following the defeat to Lazio, Luciano Spalletti changed formation: the 3-5-2 gives Juventus more defensive cover but comes at the expense of the squad&#8217;s many wide players, including Alajbegovic. Tonight in Genoa, Juventus will use the 3-5-2 again. The Bosnian could start as one of the two forwards, perhaps playing deeper than regular starter Nick Woltemade. Or he could come on during the match if Spalletti makes a switch from 3-5-2 to 3-4-2-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerim Alajbegovic was Juventus&#8217; only representative among the award nominees at the London Ballon d&#8217;Or ceremony, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,19683,287701,25548,105],"class_list":["post-659777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-juventus","tag-k-alajbegovic","tag-serie-a","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659777","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=659777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}