{"id":4612,"date":"2023-12-02T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/12\/02\/read_news-phpnid49648\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T12:55:02","slug":"read_news-phpnid49648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/12\/02\/read_news-phpnid49648\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Box-to-box midfielder who likes to create and score goals sign new deal with Chelsea\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/56787LC.png\" height=\"187\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Confirmed: Box-to-box midfielder who likes to create and score goals sign new deal with Chelsea\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/new-contract-for-castledine\" rel=\"noopener\">With a statement on their official website<\/a>, Premier League club Chelsea confirmed on Saturday that\u00a0Academy midfielder Leo Castledine has signed a new contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Castledine has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year contract with Chelsea, committing his future to the club until at least the end of the 2026-2027 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has been described by Chelsea&#8217;s official website as an attacking midfield player who has the ability to play box-to-box, he likes to create and score goals and is very tenacious in the tackle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An England U19 international, he has started every single game played by Chelsea&#8217;s development squad in the Premier League 2 this term, registering four goals and five assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also started the three games played by the Blues in the EFL Trophy, going the distance on each occasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Castledine received his first-ever call-up to Chelsea&#8217;s first team last month for a Carabao Cup fixture with Blackburn Rovers but was not utilized off the bench by manager\u00a0Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old has played nonstop at Chelsea since joining them at U15 level from\u00a0 AFC Wimbledon and made his competitive debut for the U18s while still a schoolboy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Igho Kingsley\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: chelseafc.com\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=49648\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a statement on their official website, Premier League club Chelsea confirmed on Saturday that\u00a0Academy midfielder Leo Castledine has signed a new contract.\u00a0 \u00a0 Castledine has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year contract with Chelsea, committing his future to the club until at least the end of the 2026-2027 season.\u00a0 \u00a0 He has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}