{"id":90576,"date":"2011-04-28T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=90576"},"modified":"2011-04-28T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T13:51:40","slug":"1-5-year-old-toddler-signs-10-year-deal-with-dutch-club-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/28\/1-5-year-old-toddler-signs-10-year-deal-with-dutch-club-video.html","title":{"rendered":"1.5 Year Old Toddler Signs 10 Year Deal with Dutch Club (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch club have signed an 18-month-old toddler to a 10-year contract after seeing his amazing football skills on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch club VVV-Venlo snapped up young Baerke van der Meij after seeing him kick footballs with amazing accuracy into his toy box, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.eurosport.yahoo.com\/blogs\/world-of-sport\/article\/45106\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Yahoo! Eurosport<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The club even held a press conference where the toddler signed a contract (with a little help from his dad) and dressed up in the shirt of the top flight Dutch club.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fantastic publicity stunt from VVV-Venlo, who have got a worldwide story on their hands, although they did admit that the contract was merely &#8220;symbolic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Van der Meij family has close links with the club, with Baerke&#8217;s grandfather having played for the club in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The toddler&#8217;s favourite position has not yet been determined. However, we can speak of a right-footed player with a very good kicking technique, perseverance and, importantly, football genes via his grandfather,&#8221; read a VVV-Venlo press release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sZGhGbfzCSU?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch club VVV-Venlo snapped up young Baerke van der Meij after seeing him kick footballs with amazing accuracy into his toy box.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25691,25692,25693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}