{"id":428178,"date":"2023-03-02T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428178"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T15:52:19","slug":"ronaldinhos-son-signs-contract-with-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ronaldinhos-son-signs-contract-with-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldinho&#8217;s son signs contract with Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Mendes, the son of Barcelona and Brazil legend Ronaldinho, has signed a contract with Barcelona&#8217;s youth team, the Spanish club announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old, who already terminated his contract with Brazilian Serie B club Cruzeiro, had been training with Barcelona&#8217;s youth team on a trial basis since January and according to an ESPN, Mendes&#8217;s contract will be valid until summer 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldinho, who now works as a club ambassador, spent five years at the Camp Nou as a player from 2003-08 and won one Champions League and two LaLiga titles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ronaldinho\u2019s 17-year old son Jo\u00e3o Mendes has signed for Barcelona as expected, deal completed today ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy and grateful for this big opportunity \u2014 visca Bar\u00e7a!\u201d, Jo\u00e3o has just posted. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGNmTswO79\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DGNmTswO79<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1631300322256625665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Mendes, the son of Barcelona and Brazil legend Ronaldinho, has signed a contract with Barcelona&#8217;s youth team, the Spanish club announced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428179,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17224],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17560],"acf":{"announce":"Joao Mendes will be part of the club's youth team","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428178"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428178"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}