{"id":2073,"date":"2021-07-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T10:33:18","slug":"liam-mckenna-signs-for-the-comrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/?p=2073","title":{"rendered":"Liam McKenna signs for the Comrades!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ballyclare Comrades FC are delighted to announce the signing of versatile player, Liam McKenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McKenna, 22, has impressed at left-back throughout our pre-season friendlies and will also provide competition in the defensive midfield role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liam comes with experience playing in the top tier following spells with Warrenpoint Town, Portadown, Knockbreda and most recently, Carrick Rangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am buzzing to have signed for Ballyclare,&#8221; Liam McKenna said. &#8220;From the moment I started training and playing in the friendlies, the players and staff have all been brilliant. Paul told me the plans for the future and I was sold straight away. Ballyclare is a great club and I can&#8217;t wait to get started.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equally happy with the signing, Paul Harbinson added, &#8220;I am delighted to get Liam on board. Liam comes with a wealth of experience and we are absolutely confident this is a great signing for us. He is a fantastic versatile footballer with the right mentality to drive himself, and everyone around him, on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liam will wear the number 4 shirt this season. Welcome to the Comrades Liam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballyclare Comrades FC are delighted to announce the signing of versatile player, Liam McKenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}