{"id":683087,"date":"2026-07-09T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683087\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:51:10","slug":"ivan-mesik-new-charlton-athletic-signing-living-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/683087\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Mesik: New Charlton Athletic signing living dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mesik, who has won three caps for Slovakia, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a dream to go to England, everybody who thinks about football knows it&#8217;s elite football in England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what I was looking for, where I can compete with the best players in the world&#8221;, he told BBC Radio London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An attribute that manager Nathan Jones values above anything else is combativeness, a trait that Mesik said is core to his style of play since competing against in the Dutch top flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have an aggressive style of football,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;m searching for duels. I&#8217;m not worried about going in fully. I&#8217;m the type of footballer who wants to be on the ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mesik, who has won three caps for Slovakia, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a dream to go to England, everybody who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-683087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683087","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=683087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}