{"id":13277,"date":"2025-04-17T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rory-mcilroy-man-utd-boss-ruben-amorim-invites-masters-champion-to-old-trafford\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:04:55","slug":"rory-mcilroy-man-utd-boss-ruben-amorim-invites-masters-champion-to-old-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rory-mcilroy-man-utd-boss-ruben-amorim-invites-masters-champion-to-old-trafford\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy: Man Utd boss Ruben Amorim invites Masters champion to Old Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim wants Rory McIlroy to bring a winning feeling to Old Trafford following his Masters golf triumph.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United supporter McIlroy said after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c3evny5kpv2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">he won a career grand slam<\/a> at Augusta National that he would take his Green Jacket &#8211; awarded to every winner of the Masters &#8211; to the stadium &#8220;if it can inspire some better play&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Red Devils are 14th in the Premier League after a disappointing season in which Amorim has struggled to revive their fortunes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a message on Manchester United&#8217;s official X account, Amorim said he would welcome the 35-year-old Northern Irishman&#8217;s presence at a fixture in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hi Rory. Congratulations for the Masters and I want to invite you to Old Trafford to show your trophy,&#8221; Amorim said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important for us in this moment. You achieved something that a lot of people thought would be impossible and we want that feeling in our stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I hope to see you soon at Old Trafford and to meet you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cn4ww7y87wgt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">lost 4-1 at Newcastle<\/a> hours before McIlroy began his final round on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amorim&#8217;s side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/clyqmrlg783t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">now face Lyon<\/a> in the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final at Old Trafford on Thursday (20:00 BST), though it is understood McIlroy will not be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy previously paraded the Claret Jug at Old Trafford after winning the Open Championship in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darts world champion Luke Littler, another Manchester United fan, showed off his trophy to the club&#8217;s supporters at half-time during their 3-1 defeat by Brighton in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c1k4w02741vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim wants Rory McIlroy to bring a winning feeling to Old Trafford following his Masters golf triumph. United supporter McIlroy said after he won a career grand slam at Augusta National that he would take his Green Jacket &#8211; awarded to every winner of the Masters &#8211; to the stadium &#8220;if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13279,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions\/13279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}