{"id":13223,"date":"2018-05-16T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T07:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=13223"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T07:32:45","slug":"report-melbourne-city-youngster-pierias-on-trial-at-genoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/16\/report-melbourne-city-youngster-pierias-on-trial-at-genoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Melbourne City youngster Pierias on trial at Genoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian right back Dylan Pierias is currently on a 10-day trial with Serie A side Genoa according to a report by Australian journalist Lucy Zelic.<\/p>\n<p>After making the youngest debut in A-League history at just 16 years old in February of 2017, he drew praise from the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0Next Generation 2017 roundup of young talent, which cited his athleticism and intelligence on the pitch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">18 year-old right wingback, Dylan Pierias on a 10 day trial with Genoa FC at the moment. Good luck to the lad. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lkognAbEie\">pic.twitter.com\/lkognAbEie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lucy Zeli\u0107 (@LucyZelic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucyZelic\/status\/996626234900533249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old has made five appearances for Melbourne City&#8217;s U-21 side in this year&#8217;s National Youth League, including the February 3 final against eventual champions Western Sydney Wanderers. He served as captain of the Young Socceroos during last fall&#8217;s qualification for the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Pierias, who also has an Italian passport, is the second young Australian to trial abroad this month following Tuesday&#8217;s revelation that Pierce Waring is training with Japan&#8217;s Cerezo Osaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian right back Dylan Pierias is currently on a 10-day trial with Serie A side Genoa according to a report by Australian journalist Lucy Zelic. After making the youngest debut in A-League history at just 16 years old in February of 2017, he drew praise from the\u00a0Guardian&#8216;s\u00a0Next Generation 2017 roundup of young talent, which cited his athleticism and intelligence on the pitch. The 18-year-old has made five appearances for Melbourne City&#8217;s U-21 side in this year&#8217;s National Youth League, including the February 3 final against eventual champions Western Sydney Wanderers. He served as captain of the Young Socceroos during last fall&#8217;s qualification for the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship. Pierias, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/16\/report-melbourne-city-youngster-pierias-on-trial-at-genoa\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Report: Melbourne City youngster Pierias on trial at Genoa&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1296,1504,1505,241,201],"class_list":["post-13223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-asian-players-in-europe","tag-dylan-pierias","tag-genoa","tag-melbourne-city","tag-serie-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223","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=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}