{"id":59978,"date":"2024-11-21T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-was-fed-up-with-football-ex-man-united-star-vermijl-reveals-why-he-turned-postman\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:00:14","slug":"i-was-fed-up-with-football-ex-man-united-star-vermijl-reveals-why-he-turned-postman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-was-fed-up-with-football-ex-man-united-star-vermijl-reveals-why-he-turned-postman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was fed up with football\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Man United star, Vermijl reveals why he turned postman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Manchester United defender, Marnick Vermijl, has said that he was fed up with professional football.<\/p>\n<p>The former Red Devils defender said that for this reason, he started working as a postman.<\/p>\n<p>Vermijl revealed that he developed an interest in becoming a postman because football had become tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>Vermijl, a product of Red Devils academy, played for the club\u2019s U-18 before being promoted to the senior team in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up playing just two games for Manchester United first team before he was sold to Sheffield Wednesday in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He now plays for Belgian side, Thes Sport, a club he joined in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to Manchester Evening News, Vermijl said he now spends his time between playing for Thes Sport and being a postman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was fed up with professional football,\u201d he said, adding that depending on the managers and coaches was also a big factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a postman I have to get up at four o\u2019clock, but now I am home around noon and can pick up the children from school every day. That is a luxury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was fed up with football\u2019 \u2013 Ex-Man United star, Vermijl reveals why he turned postman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United defender, Marnick Vermijl, has said that he was fed up with professional football. The former Red Devils&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,15,160,26145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-man-united","category-news","category-sport","category-vermijl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59978","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=59978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}