{"id":418472,"date":"2019-07-18T03:31:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T07:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=418472"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:56:05","slug":"juventus-seal-matthijs-de-ligt-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/18\/juventus-seal-matthijs-de-ligt-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus Seal Matthijs de Ligt Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably Europe\u2019s hottest property, Matthijs de Ligt will join \u00ad\u00ad\u00adJuventus on a 5-year deal worth an estimated \u00a367 million. The inevitable has finally happened for Ajax after their sensational run to the \u00ad\u00ad\u00adsemi-finals of the Champions League this season. The inspirational teenager is the latest star off the Ajax Amsterdam production line to leave the club. He had been at Ajax since 2009.<\/p>\n<h2>Juventus Sign Matthijs de Ligt<\/h2>\n<h3>Prodigy<\/h3>\n<p>Still only 19, de Ligt has already won a number of personal accolades in his young career. He only turns 20 in August and had Europe\u2019s biggest clubs clamouring for his signature before eventually agreeing to join Italian giants,\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad Juventus. De Ligt became the youngest captain in the knock-out phase of the Champions League this past season to add to his numerous personal accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>At 17, the defender became the youngest debutant in the history of the Dutch national team in March 2017. The youngster was soon named the captain of Ajax \u2013 the youngest in history to have that honour. In 2018, De Ligt won the European Golden Boy award, awarded to the best young player on the continent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca1 LIGHTS \ud83d\udd1b | Matthijs de Ligt \u00e8 ufficialmente bianconero! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vqrukMxB9I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/vqrukMxB9I<\/a> \u26aa\u26ab<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TURNDELIGTON?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TURNDELIGTON<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LiveAhead?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LiveAhead<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a7L41UQ7li\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/a7L41UQ7li<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JuventusFC (@juventusfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juventusfc\/status\/1151746984988041216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Unlimited Potential<\/h3>\n<p>De Ligt made 55 total appearances for Ajax, scoring 7 goals, after breaking into the first-team in 2016. For the Dutch national team, he has made 2 appearances so far with his solitary goal coming against Germany in a 3-2 defeat in Amsterdam earlier this year in a Euro 2020 qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>De Ligt has all the tools to be a leader in the dressing room despite his tender age. On the pitch, he is a ball-playing centre-back. 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The inevitable has finally happened for Ajax after their sensational run to the \u00ad\u00ad\u00adsemi-finals of the Champions League this season. The inspirational teenager is the latest star off the Ajax Amsterdam production line to leave the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2709,"featured_media":439058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2,28],"tags":[560,86,485,1988,136],"class_list":["post-418472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-transfers","tag-ajax","tag-champions-league","tag-eredivisie","tag-matthijs-de-ligt","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Jarvis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}