{"id":1085336,"date":"2026-07-12T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1085336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:58:15","slug":"malaga-pair-help-spain-win-under-19-european-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1085336\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaga pair help Spain win Under-19 European Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Two footballers from Malaga celebrated Under-19 European Championship glory with Spain after Paco Gallardo&#8217;s side beat Germany 2-0 in Saturday&#8217;s final at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Spain completed a flawless campaign, winning every match, scoring 19 goals and conceding none on their way to a record-extending 10th Under-19 European title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Local forwards Sergio Esteban of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and Joselillo Gait\u00e1n of Villarreal were both part of the victorious squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Esteban, the son of former Malaga striker Paco Esteban, came on in the 64th minute with Spain already 2-0 ahead thanks to goals from Hugo L\u00f3pez and Mario Rivas. He finished the tournament with three goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Gait\u00e1n, a product of Malaga&#8217;s academy before joining Villarreal in 2023, played a more limited role during the finals. The 19-year-old enjoyed a productive season with Villarreal B, scoring five goals in the Primera Federaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two footballers from Malaga celebrated Under-19 European Championship glory with Spain after Paco Gallardo&#8217;s side beat Germany 2-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1085337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[9030,2000,299,5187,36959,7707,94608,104,195465,9356],"class_list":["post-1085336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-championship","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-help","tag-malaga","tag-pair","tag-spain","tag-under19","tag-win"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116909251310261751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}