{"id":38753,"date":"2025-10-07T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cardiff-city-records-tumble-as-axel-donczew-becomes-youngest-player\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:45:48","slug":"cardiff-city-records-tumble-as-axel-donczew-becomes-youngest-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cardiff-city-records-tumble-as-axel-donczew-becomes-youngest-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City: Records tumble as Axel Donczew becomes youngest player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">John Toshack held the record of being Cardiff City&#8217;s youngest player for 42 years. Aaron Ramsey then had the honour for 18 years. Rob Tankiewicz? Just 64 minutes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielder Tankiewicz started in Tuesday&#8217;s EFL Trophy match against Newport County at the age of 16 years and 117 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That saw him break the record set by Wales captain Ramsey, who made his Cardiff debut at 16 years and 123 days old in 2007, to surpass John Toshack&#8217;s previous mark from 1965.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But just as Tankiewicz was getting used to his achievement, Cardiff replaced him with Axel Donczew, even younger at 15 years and 234 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both are attacking midfielders, products of the Bluebirds&#8217; academy and Wales youth internationals, though they both qualify to play for Poland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckg2qvezzxlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Toshack held the record of being Cardiff City&#8217;s youngest player for 42 years. Aaron Ramsey then had the honour for 18 years. Rob Tankiewicz? Just 64 minutes. Midfielder Tankiewicz started in Tuesday&#8217;s EFL Trophy match against Newport County at the age of 16 years and 117 days. That saw him break the record set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1667,1251,297,12152,2419,3990,3804,4212],"class_list":["post-38753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-axel","tag-cardiff","tag-city","tag-donczew","tag-player","tag-records","tag-tumble","tag-youngest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38753","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=38753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38755,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38753\/revisions\/38755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}