{"id":50816,"date":"2024-09-25T20:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/carabao-cup-16-yr-old-porter-becomes-youngest-player-to-start-for-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T20:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:04:47","slug":"carabao-cup-16-yr-old-porter-becomes-youngest-player-to-start-for-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/carabao-cup-16-yr-old-porter-becomes-youngest-player-to-start-for-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup: 16-yr-old Porter becomes youngest player to start for Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jack Porter has become the youngest-ever player to start a game for Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old has been picked by Mikel Arteta for Tuesday night\u2019s Carabao Cup tie against Bolton Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager only signed scholarship terms with the Premier League this summer, having turned 16 in July.<\/p>\n<p>Porter doesn\u2019t have many appearances for Arsenal\u2019s Under-23s side, let alone the first-team, under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>But with David Raya picking up a knock at Man City on Sunday and Neto cup-tied, the teenager gets his chance.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Nwaneri, 17, became Arsenal\u2019s youngest-ever Premier League player against Brentford in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder also played 15 minutes in the Premier League last season as a substitute in Arsenal\u2019s 6-0 win over West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Carabao Cup: 16-yr-old Porter becomes youngest player to start for Arsenal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Porter has become the youngest-ever player to start a game for Arsenal. The 16-year-old has been picked by Mikel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,7263,15,24891,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-carabao-cup","category-news","category-porter","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}