{"id":108428,"date":"2020-01-31T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/random_brazilian_football_team_invokes_the_spirit_of_pokemon_to_welcome_veteran_japanese_player"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:30:00","slug":"random-brazilian-football-team-invokes-the-spirit-of-pokemon-to-welcome-veteran-japanese-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/31\/random-brazilian-football-team-invokes-the-spirit-of-pokemon-to-welcome-veteran-japanese-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Brazilian Football Team Invokes The Spirit Of Pok\u00e9mon To Welcome Veteran Japanese Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/502ea761b9d1d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/502ea761b9d1d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/502ea761b9d1d\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brazilian football team Botafogo has just signed Japanese veteran midfielder Keisuke Honda \u2013 and to give him a proper welcome, it has created a special video based on the opening to the original <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> games on the Game Boy.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, Honda has 90 caps for the Japanese national side to his name, and is perhaps most famous for playing for Italian Serie A side AC Milan during the 2015-2016 season. Since then, he has played for Pachuca, Melbourne Victory and Vitesse Arnhem.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Game! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HondaChegou?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HondaChegou<\/a> \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5\u2b50\ufe0f\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/et3ecitGq1\">pic.twitter.com\/et3ecitGq1<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Botafogo F.R. (@Botafogo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Botafogo\/status\/1223246728461156352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He began his career in 2005 with the Japanese side Nagoya Grampus Eight (fans of former England striker Gary Lineker might recall that name) and has also played for VVV-Venlo and CSKA Moscow during his time in the sport.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nakamuramartin\">Nakamuramartin<\/a> for the heads up!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian football team Botafogo has just signed Japanese veteran midfielder Keisuke Honda \u2013 and to give him a proper welcome, it has created a special video based on the opening to the original Pok\u00e9mon games on the Game Boy. In case you didn&#8217;t know, Honda has 90 caps for the Japanese national side to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}