{"id":14775,"date":"2007-09-27T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=14775"},"modified":"2020-09-27T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:00:22","slug":"the-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2007\/09\/27\/the-real-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Rangel has admitted that for the first time in his career he feels like a real footballer.<\/p>\n<p>Rangel has probably been the most impressive of the summer&#8217;s captures to date, putting in a string of impressive performances at right back after joining the Swans during the close season.<\/p>\n<p>His performances have earned rave reviews with many predicting that he has a great future ahead of him. Talking in the matchday programme which will be available around the ground tomorrow, Rangel said &#8220;It may sound strange, but for the first time in my career I actually feel like a real footballer. Back home you&#8217;d play in front of a few hundred people, possibly 2,000 at maximum for really big games, and then just go home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There would be no autographs to sign, fans waiting to speak to you. In fact, nobody away from the football club really knew who you were.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here in Swansea it&#8217;s totally different. The crowds we get are unbelievable; fans are asking you for your autograph before and after the game; and people actually know who I am!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People not only recognise me in the street, they actually come over to say hello and ask me to sign an autograph,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really took me by surprise at first. I thought &#8216;how do they know me?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Rangel has admitted that for the first time in his career he feels like a real footballer. Rangel has probably been the most impressive of the summer&#8217;s captures to date, putting in a string of impressive performances at right back after joining the Swans during the close season. His performances have earned rave reviews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}