{"id":28297,"date":"2016-08-14T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28297"},"modified":"2016-08-14T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:39:01","slug":"indian-super-league-mumbai-city-fc-announce-diego-forlan-as-their-marquee-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28297","title":{"rendered":"Indian Super League: Mumbai City FC announce Diego Forlan as their marquee player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28296\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Diego-Forlan.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"169\" alt=\"Diego Forlan\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Diego-Forlan.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Diego-Forlan-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Mumbai: Mumbai City FC announced Uruguayan legend Diego Forlan as their Marquee player for the upcoming season of the Indian Super League.<\/p>\n<p>Forlan began his career in Argentina and soon earned a move to Manchester United. Having tasted success with the Red Devils, the forward then moved to La Liga and emerged as a top scorer with Spain&#8217;s Villareal CF and Club Atl&eacute;tico de Madrid. Forl&aacute;n won the Golden Ball Award as the top player at the 2010 FIFA World Cup and set his country&#8217;s record for most international appearances a year later.<\/p>\n<p>He also plied his trade in Japan before most recently returning to his boyhood club Penarol in Uruguay and leading them to the Apertura title in the Uruguay first division. He is a two-time winner of both the Pichichi Trophy and the European Golden Shoe. He is regarded as one of the greatest Uruguayan players of all time. <\/p>\n<p>Ranbir Kapoor, Owner, Mumbai City FC said, &#8220;It&#8217;s really exciting to have a player of Diego&#8217;s quality play for us in the upcoming season. He&#8217;s one of the best in the business and I can&#8217;t wait to see him on the field fighting it out for Mumbai.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28296\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Diego-Forlan.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"169\" alt=\"Diego Forlan\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Diego-Forlan.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Diego-Forlan-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Mumbai: Mumbai City FC announced Uruguayan legend Diego Forlan as their Marquee player for the upcoming season of the Indian Super League.<\/p>\n<p>Forlan began his career in Argentina and soon earned a move to Manchester United. Having tasted success with the Red Devils, the forward then moved to La Liga and emerged as a top scorer with Spain&#8217;s Villareal CF and Club Atl&eacute;tico de Madrid. Forl&aacute;n won the Golden Ball Award as the top player at the 2010 FIFA World Cup and set his country&#8217;s record for most international appearances a year later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[16718,12975,466,7563,17462,7565],"class_list":["post-28297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-diego-forlan","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-indian-super-league","tag-marquee-player","tag-mumbai-city-fc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indian Super League: Mumbai City FC announce Diego Forlan as their marquee player - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28297\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian Super League: Mumbai City FC announce Diego Forlan as their marquee player - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mumbai: Mumbai City FC announced Uruguayan legend Diego Forlan as their Marquee player for the upcoming season of the Indian Super League.Forlan began his career in Argentina and soon earned a move to Manchester United. 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