{"id":491767,"date":"2026-03-24T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491767\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:40:10","slug":"memphis-depay-corinthians-striker-explains-why-he-used-mobile-phone-during-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491767\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Depay: Corinthians striker explains why he used mobile phone during match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Corinthians striker Memphis Depay has explained why he was using a mobile phone while on the substitutes&#8217; bench during a Brazilian top-flight match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Netherlands forward was pictured by television cameras using a phone in the second half of Sunday&#8217;s 1-1 draw with Flamengo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Depay, 32, had been taken off in the 22nd minute of the game and has said he was providing the Dutch camp with an update on his fitness before the international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just to clarify my moment with the phone was pure to communicate with the medical staff in the Netherlands at that moment,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Memphis\/status\/2035909418970210373\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Depay wrote on X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I came outside to show support to my team while I could&#8217;ve stayed inside the dressing room with the injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Depay added that he was &#8220;upset with the result of the game&#8221; and will &#8220;keep working for better days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Manchester United and Barcelona forward, who has been capped 108 times by the Netherlands and is their record goalscorer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c33nx36ylpro\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined Corinthians in September 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corinthians striker Memphis Depay has explained why he was using a mobile phone while on the substitutes&#8217; bench&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-491767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}