{"id":167331,"date":"2026-04-13T07:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=167331"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:45:42","slug":"isak-said-no-to-madrid-then-struggled-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=167331","title":{"rendered":"ISAK Said NO To Madrid\u2026 Then Struggled. #football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xFW2FndJjwY?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>2016, Alexander Isak turned down Real Madrid to join Borussia Dortmund\u2026 but things went wrong fast. No trust, no plan, no future.<\/p>\n<p>So he rebuilt himself in the Netherlands, broke records once held by Zlatan Ibrahimovi\u0107, then shined at Real Sociedad and ended their 34-year trophy drought. Now at Newcastle United, he\u2019s proving everyone wrong\u2014even after injuries and criticism.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t failure \u2014 this is a comeback story.<\/p>\n<p>#AlexanderIsak\u200b #FootballStory\u200b #Liverpool\u200b #Newcastle\u200b #RealSociedad\u200b #Dortmund\u200b #CristianoRonaldo\u200b #FootballShorts\u200b #SoccerStory\u200b #Comeback\u200b #shorts #viralshorts<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xFW2FndJjwY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016, Alexander Isak turned down Real Madrid to join Borussia Dortmund\u2026 but things went wrong fast. No trust, no plan, no future. So he rebuilt himself in the Netherlands, broke&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11211,"featured_media":167332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}