{"id":20666,"date":"2025-01-08T19:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/david-beckham-praises-ex-wales-player-mark-hughes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T19:09:30","slug":"david-beckham-praises-ex-wales-player-mark-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/david-beckham-praises-ex-wales-player-mark-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"David Beckham praises ex-Wales player Mark Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;He had these thighs&#8230; and my mum loved his thighs.&#8221; <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a documentary celebrating former Wales footballer Mark Hughes, David Beckham said the Manchester United legend &#8220;did things that not many players can do&#8221;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Footage shows Beckham idolised Hughes from a very young age, and as a young lad would go and watch him play.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"from-legends-of-welsh-sport:-mark-hughes,-produced-by-barn-media.\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">From Legends of Welsh Sport: Mark Hughes, produced by Barn Media.<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/clyxyggym2go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He had these thighs&#8230; and my mum loved his thighs.&#8221; In a documentary celebrating former Wales footballer Mark Hughes, David Beckham said the Manchester United legend &#8220;did things that not many players can do&#8221;. Footage shows Beckham idolised Hughes from a very young age, and as a young lad would go and watch him play. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[7881,2195,4431,7069,878,2419,4201],"class_list":["post-20666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-beckham","tag-david","tag-exwales","tag-hughes","tag-mark","tag-player","tag-praises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20668,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20666\/revisions\/20668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}