{"id":268573,"date":"2020-09-13T06:35:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T10:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=268573"},"modified":"2020-09-13T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T10:35:47","slug":"neil-etheridge-moves-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/13\/neil-etheridge-moves-to-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Etheridge moves to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_268574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268574\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64440689_2218240321547250_8809189331277954033_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-268574\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64440689_2218240321547250_8809189331277954033_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64440689_2218240321547250_8809189331277954033_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64440689_2218240321547250_8809189331277954033_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64440689_2218240321547250_8809189331277954033_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64440689_2218240321547250_8809189331277954033_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64440689_2218240321547250_8809189331277954033_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birmingham announced that Etheridge, who formerly starred for fellow Championship side Cardiff, signed a four-year deal for an undisclosed amount. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzLEVsfFGtc\/\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/neil38etheridge\">neil38etheridge\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Philippine national football team goalkeeper Neil Etheridge completed a move to the English Football League Championship side Birmingham City on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham announced that Etheridge, who formerly starred for fellow Championship side Cardiff, signed a four-year deal for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p>The signing came just as Birmingham is preparing for its season opener in the second-tier league against Brentford on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Etheridge later posted a thanksgiving statement to Cardiff, which was his home for three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made some fantastic memories together and I\u2019ll never forget the part the club and supporters played. I wish the club every success in the future,&#8221; the 30-year-old goalkeeper said through Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Etheridge became a sought-after player in the transfer market after leading Cardiff to the Premier League in his first season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite getting relegated back to the Championship, Etheridge starred for Cardiff in its lone season in the top tier, making penalty saves in back-to-back matches, a rarity in football.<\/p>\n<p>However, injuries riddled him last season, eventually leading to Alex Smithies getting the start for most of the year.<\/p>\n<p>With Smithies impressing, Cardiff became keen on keeping him at the start, leading to the Etheridge transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Philippine national football team goalkeeper Neil Etheridge completed a move to the English Football League Championship side Birmingham City &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":268574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268575,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268573\/revisions\/268575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}