{"id":540693,"date":"2020-01-16T05:36:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=540693"},"modified":"2020-01-16T05:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:36:20","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-sign-winger-manuel-hidalgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/16\/sheffield-wednesday-sign-winger-manuel-hidalgo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday Sign Winger Manuel Hidalgo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Wednesday have confirmed that they have signed young winger Manuel Hidalgo from Italian Serie C side Triestina.<\/p>\n<h2>Sheffield Wednesday Sign Winger Manuel Hidalgo<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sheffield Wednesday have signed Argentine winger Manuel Hidalgo from Italian side Triestina!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome Manuel! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/swfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#swfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheffield Wednesday (@swfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swfc\/status\/1217580412396089344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/january\/argentina-winger-signs-for-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official Sheffield Wednesday website<\/a>, Hidalgo said: &#8220;I have always liked English football, I think it is the best football in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;England has the best leagues, the best pitches and players, the best structures, everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a big step for me but I feel very prepared and very happy to be here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like to dribble with the ball and play freely the Argentinian way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know I need to take some steps towards the first team. I played for the first team in Italy and I know it&#8217;s not the same here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to play first for the U23s but my main goal is to play for the first team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Every Chance to Break into the First Team at Sheffield Wednesday<\/h3>\n<p>The 20-year-old says that he will initially start in the U23 team at Hillsborough, but he has every chance to break into the first team under Garry Monk&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not making an appearance this season, Hidalgo did feature 19 times for Triestina last season, learning the life of first-team football.<\/p>\n<p>Current Wednesday manager Monk has not been afraid to give youth a chance. He gave <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/1124ac8a\/Osaze-Urhoghide\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Osaze Urhoghide<\/a> is debut in the FA Cup against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/brighton-hove-albion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a>. Meanwhile, fellow youngsters <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c049795e\/Alex-Hunt\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Hunt<\/a> and Ben Hughes have also featured on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Argentinian will be hoping that he can follow in their footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Wednesday currently sit sixth in the Championship, occupying the last play-off place on goal difference ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/swansea-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swansea City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After a 2-0 win against rivals Leeds United, they return to Hillsborough in their next game to face mid-table side Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"FgMz3xfXQqlS3hq4DGa_sw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1191045511\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'FgMz3xfXQqlS3hq4DGa_sw',sig:'b5unIugTkuU7WXkD-2zx82W1et-yrdrneCwVbpKdbLg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1191045511',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Wednesday have confirmed that they have signed young winger Manuel Hidalgo from Italian Serie C side Triestina. Sheffield Wednesday Sign Winger Manuel Hidalgo &nbsp; Sheffield Wednesday have signed Argentine winger Manuel Hidalgo from Italian side Triestina! Welcome Manuel! #swfc \u2014 Sheffield Wednesday (@swfc) January 15, 2020 What Was Said Speaking to the official Sheffield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":540701,"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":[32,33,30,28],"tags":[197,168,4654,1083,136],"class_list":["post-540693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-manuel-hidalgo","tag-sheffield-wednesday","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540693","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\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}