{"id":11596,"date":"2022-05-04T02:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T21:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=218779"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:20:44","slug":"lebron-james-cheers-for-liverpool-reaching-champions-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/lebron-james-cheers-for-liverpool-reaching-champions-league-final\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James cheers for Liverpool reaching Champions League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James cheers Liverpool as they reach the Champions League final beating Villarreal 2-3 (2-5 on aggregate). Lakers\u2019 James was quick enough to congratulate the club from his official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>Basketball superstar LeBron James made a wise decision by purchasing a minor investment in Liverpool FC. In April 2011, the Los Angeles Lakers forward and his business partner Maverick Carter paid $6.5 million (4.7 million pounds) for a 2 per cent stake in Liverpool as per\u00a0<em>AS.com<\/em>. The player wrote, \u201cParis here we come.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PARIS HERE WE COME!!!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LFC<\/a> \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1521594327524249600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u2019s official page was also quick to reply to LeBron\u2019s tweet, \u201cIs right @KingJames.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is right, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KingJames<\/a> \ud83d\ude0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uDHsb0jsxM\">https:\/\/t.co\/uDHsb0jsxM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liverpool FC (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1521596798351122433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also posted a picture of him wearing a Liverpool jersey with the caption, \u201cMood\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MOOD!!!!!! \ud83d\ude01 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LFC<\/a> \ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/egf6EsK4fE\">pic.twitter.com\/egf6EsK4fE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1521596872837586944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool has now reached the final of the UCL for the third time in their last five seasons. They now await the winner between Real Madrid and Manchester City in the final for the battle of title. The two will face each other tomorrow for the second leg at Santiago Bernabeu at 12:30 am IST. The Whites lost their away match against the Premier League winners 4-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool now awaits the winner between Real Madrid and Manchester City in the final for the battle of title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":34066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[177,2812,583,1073,2604,1071,220,266,554],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-champions-league","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-real-madrid","tag-ucl-finals"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}