{"id":556923,"date":"2020-07-06T07:48:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=556923"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:27:27","slug":"cristian-montano-signs-contract-extension-at-port-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/06\/cristian-montano-signs-contract-extension-at-port-vale\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristian Montano Signs Contract Extension at Port Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian winger Cristian Montano has signed a one-year contract extension at Port Vale. He is the latest in a series of players to extend their stays at Vale Park as they look to improve upon their eighth-place finish this season.<\/p>\n<h2>Christian Montano Extends Port Vale Contract<\/h2>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Montano started his career in the youth set-up at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham United<\/a> but never made a senior appearance for the Hammers. Instead, he spent time plying his trade in the EFL in five separate loan spells with Notts County, Swindon Town, Dagenham &amp; Redbridge, Notts County and Oxford United.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually left West Ham in 2012 and signed for Oldham Athletic, where he was a regular in their 2012\/13 season and contributed three goals.<\/p>\n<p>He briefly moved back to Colombia for the 2014\/15 season, playing for America de Cali, but returned to England in 2015 and spent two years with Bristol Rovers, where he scored three times in 53 league matches.<\/p>\n<p>He then linked up with Port Vale in 2017 and has chipped in with nine League Two goals across his three seasons.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, chief executive Colin Garlick said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased that we\u2019ve tied Monty down to the club for another year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Monty has developed into that dual role and we can play him in a number of positions, and having that flexibility in a player is important for John [Askey] and the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just the playing side however, with what he brings to the club and the community, he has been outstanding this year both on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve now got another player of the squad, who was successful last year, tied down for another season, which makes the nucleus of a successful squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"EMrUcedxQDx1F1gKoMQBtQ\" 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\/1006859518\" 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:'EMrUcedxQDx1F1gKoMQBtQ',sig:'A5krEMn4fAHyWhXc-yL6IPigfjvicjkY6jnz1iAZazg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1006859518',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>Colombian winger Cristian Montano has signed a one-year contract extension at Port Vale. He is the latest in a series of players to extend their stays at Vale Park as they look to improve upon their eighth-place finish this season. Christian Montano Extends Port Vale Contract Career So Far Montano started his career in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":556924,"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":[32,34,30],"tags":[5913,168,520,136],"class_list":["post-556923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","tag-cristian-montano","tag-efl","tag-league-two","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556923","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}