{"id":21641,"date":"2024-08-26T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/james-rodriguez-ex-real-madrid-and-everton-playmaker-joins-rayo-vallecano\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:24:34","slug":"james-rodriguez-ex-real-madrid-and-everton-playmaker-joins-rayo-vallecano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/james-rodriguez-ex-real-madrid-and-everton-playmaker-joins-rayo-vallecano\/","title":{"rendered":"James Rodriguez: Ex-Real Madrid and Everton playmaker joins Rayo Vallecano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Real Madrid and Everton playmaker James Rodriguez has joined La Liga club Rayo Vallecano as a free agent.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Colombian, 33, has been without a club since leaving Brazilian side Sao Paulo this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named player of the tournament at the Copa America in July after providing six assists in Colombia&#8217;s run to the final, where they were beaten by Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rayo Vallecano are eighth in La Liga having begun the season with a win and a draw. They finished 17th last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rodriguez won the Golden Boot at the 2014 World Cup and signed for Real Madrid later that summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played 125 times for the Spanish champions before leaving on loan for two years at Bayern Munich. He then joined Everton in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played 26 times for the Toffees but left 12 months into a two-year deal in a move to Qatari club Al Rayyan. He joined Olympiakos a year later before moving to Sao Paulo in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c6283ldk17do\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid and Everton playmaker James Rodriguez has joined La Liga club Rayo Vallecano as a free agent. The Colombian, 33, has been without a club since leaving Brazilian side Sao Paulo this summer. He was named player of the tournament at the Copa America in July after providing six assists in Colombia&#8217;s run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21643,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions\/21643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}