{"id":12005,"date":"2018-04-01T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2018-04-01T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T14:08:27","slug":"will-donkin-crystal-palaces-young-player-becomes-hope-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/01\/will-donkin-crystal-palaces-young-player-becomes-hope-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace young talent Will Donkin: A new hope for Chinese Taipei football"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Mahir Pradana<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Translated by\u00a0Budy D.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

We did not really know many things about Taiwan\u2019s football development, but, in the last few months, the fans there are excited because of Will Donkin. The player who now plays for Crystal Palace<\/strong><\/a> is the hottest topic within Taiwanese supporters. He is still not playing for the first team yet, but Donkin is regarded to be the key player who will revive Chinese Taipei on the international scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is just 17, but he has great talent,\u201d said the Chinese Taipei head coach Gary White to Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Donkin, who plays as\u00a0an attacking midfielder, got his debut with Chinese Taipei back in September 2017. After that, he gains White\u2019s trust and gets to play in his squad as one of the midfielders, including when the team won from Singapore in the last match of Asian Cup 2019 qualification.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not in the starter yet, but if he keeps training well, he will get his chance to play against Singapore later,\u201d added White.<\/p>\n

Will Donkin was a part of Chelsea\u2019s academy and he now plays with Crystal Palace U-18. His popularity reaches its peak when he plays for the national team. He becomes a star in his own country. He is not getting many chances to play for Chinese Taipei yet, but he is expected to become White\u2019s trump card in Asian Games 2018.<\/p>\n

With the new talents like Donkin, it is not impossible for Chinese Taipei to break into the best 100 team in the world. The fans are excited to give their support for the national team and the future project of Chinese Taipei\u2019s football development because of Donkin, even though he was born in Oxford, England. He also makes a way for other young players, who play in England\u2019s competition, to play for Chinese Taipei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Mahir Pradana Translated by\u00a0Budy D. We did not really know many things about Taiwan\u2019s football development, but, in the last few months, the fans there are excited because of Will Donkin. The player who now plays for Crystal Palace is the hottest topic within Taiwanese supporters. He is still not playing for the first team yet, but Donkin is regarded to be the key player who will revive Chinese Taipei on the international scale. \u201cHe is just 17, but he has great talent,\u201d said the Chinese Taipei head coach Gary White to Sky Sports. Donkin, who plays as\u00a0an attacking midfielder, got his debut with Chinese Taipei back in September 2017. … Continue reading “Crystal Palace young talent Will Donkin: A new hope for Chinese Taipei football”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[218,1373],"class_list":["post-12005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","tag-chinese-taipei","tag-will-donkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}