{"id":119963,"date":"2019-11-21T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/21\/from-vardy-to-lewandowski-vintage-traditional-no-9s-are-thriving-again\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:27:21","slug":"from-vardy-to-lewandowski-vintage-traditional-no-9s-are-thriving-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=119963","title":{"rendered":"From Vardy to Lewandowski, vintage traditional No 9s are thriving again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The modern game was supposed to have left such centre-forwards behind, so why are they topping the scoring charts?Ever since Hungary swaggered into Wembley in 1953, deploying Nandor Hidegkuti as a \u201cfalse nine\u201d and shattering England\u2019s superiority complex, the traditional No 9 has been left a yard off the pace, fighting for a place in the beautiful game.These days strikers have to be fit, hard-working and flexible, often leaving the headlines for those who profit from their efforts. It has been 15 years since an out-and-out striker \u2013 Milan\u2019s Andriy Shevchenko \u2013 won the Ballon d\u2019Or. That marked the end of a golden age for goalscorers, now endangered in an era of relentless pressing and possession. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/nov\/21\/vardy-lewandowski-vintage-traditional-no-9s-thriving-again-topping-scoring-charts\" target=\"_blank\">From Vardy to Lewandowski, vintage traditional No 9s are thriving again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern game was supposed to have left such centre-forwards behind, so why are they topping the scoring charts?Ever since Hungary swaggered into Wembley in 1953, deploying Nandor Hidegkuti as a \u201cfalse nine\u201d and shattering England\u2019s superiority complex, the traditional No 9 has been left a yard off the pace, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}