{"id":10553,"date":"2021-07-08T21:33:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=122563"},"modified":"2021-07-08T21:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:03:50","slug":"nacho-signs-contract-extension-with-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/nacho-signs-contract-extension-with-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nacho signs contract extension with Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish defender Nacho Fernandez extended his Real Madrid contract on Thursday. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cReal Madrid CF and Nacho Fernandez have reached an agreement to extend the player\u2019s contract in a deal that ties him to the club for the next two seasons and until June 30, 2023,\u201d read an official statement of Real Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, Nacho\u2019s contract with the club was past the 2022 expiration date, but the agreement has been extended by 12 months.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The midfielder has made 233 appearances for the club over his time there, winning two La Liga titles and four Champions League titles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid failed to retain the La Liga title, as their bitter city rivals Atletico Madrid won the 2020\/21 La Liga title. The race for the league title went down to the last day with the teams separated by a point, however, Atletico secured the title.<\/p>\n<p>Zinedine Zidane resigned as the coach of the club at the end of Real Madrid\u2019s campaign. Carlo Ancelotti was appointed as the new manager in a sudden turn of events as he unexpectedly left his manager role at Everton to return for a second stint back at Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>With Raphael Varane\u2019s future at the La Liga giants in doubt as the French international gets closely linked with a move to Manchester United, the 31-year-old Nacho has agreed to prolong his association with the Blancos, with a home-grown talent remaining a one-club man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nacho has made 233 appearances for the La Liga club so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1868,410,177,249,2229,377,266,1805,267,1127],"class_list":["post-10553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ancelotti","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-champions-league","tag-manchester-united","tag-nacho","tag-raphael-varane","tag-real-madrid","tag-varane","tag-zidane","tag-zinedine-zidane"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}