{"id":13098,"date":"2018-05-15T02:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T02:50:31","slug":"melbourne-city-release-michael-jakobsen-to-rivals-adelaide-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/15\/melbourne-city-release-michael-jakobsen-to-rivals-adelaide-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne City release Michael Jakobsen to rivals Adelaide United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne City have released skipper Michael Jakobsen to rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/05\/adelaide-united-striker-dzengis-cavusevic-misses-the-remainder-of-season-due-to-injury\/\">Adelaide United<\/a>, the club announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide United confirmed the signing of Danish center-back\u00a0Jakobsen on a two-year deal.\u00a0Earlier, Melbourne City confirmed the defender&#8217;s departure following two seasons with the Victorian club.<\/p>\n<p>Jakobsen had amassed\u00a0more than 200 appearances in the Danish Super Liga with Aalborg BK as well as\u00a0Esbjerg fB, FC Copenhagen, and FC Nordsj\u00e6lland.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old also plied his trade to\u00a0Spanish outfit Almeria and had a brief stint at the beginning of his career at Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited because it\u2019s a new chapter of my career and I\u2019m really looking forward to getting started,\u201d Jakobsen expressed his excitement to join United, as quoted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.a-league.com.au\/news\/adelaide-united-sign-michael-jakobsen-aleague-transfer-melbourne-city\">Hyundai A-League website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard only positive things about Adelaide United, so that was a big part of my decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have said Adelaide is a good city especially for small families and I have a small family so it\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team had a good season last year and the ambitions are high at the Club, which is what I like and this suits me well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to win games and I want to win titles and hopefully I can contribute to doing that with Adelaide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne City have released skipper Michael Jakobsen to rivals Adelaide United, the club announced on Monday. Adelaide United confirmed the signing of Danish center-back\u00a0Jakobsen on a two-year deal.\u00a0Earlier, Melbourne City confirmed the defender&#8217;s departure following two seasons with the Victorian club. Jakobsen had amassed\u00a0more than 200 appearances in the Danish Super Liga with Aalborg BK as well as\u00a0Esbjerg fB, FC Copenhagen, and FC Nordsj\u00e6lland. The 32-year-old also plied his trade to\u00a0Spanish outfit Almeria and had a brief stint at the beginning of his career at Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. \u201cI\u2019m excited because it\u2019s a new chapter of my career and I\u2019m really looking forward to getting started,\u201d Jakobsen expressed his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/15\/melbourne-city-release-michael-jakobsen-to-rivals-adelaide-united\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Melbourne City release Michael Jakobsen to rivals Adelaide United&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,856],"tags":[123,241,1499],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098"}],"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=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}