{"id":209786,"date":"2025-06-24T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209786\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:27:08","slug":"gareth-bale-wales-legend-confirms-interest-in-cardiff-city-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209786\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Bale: Wales legend confirms interest in Cardiff City ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wales great Gareth Bale never played for his hometown club Cardiff City.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Gareth Bale<\/a> has confirmed that he is part of a group trying to buy his hometown club, Cardiff City.<\/p>\n

Bale was recently part of U.S. consortium that was looking to acquire Plymouth Argyle<\/a>, which reportedly failed. On Monday, Wales<\/a>‘ all-time leading scorer reaffirmed his ambition to enter football ownership, this time with League One side Cardiff.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the red carpet at the premiere for “F1: The Movie<\/a>“, Bale told Sky Sports: “We are interested in getting Cardiff. It’s my home club, it’s where I grew up and my uncle used to play for them.<\/p>\n

“To be involved with an ownership group would be a dream come true.”<\/p>\n

Bale was born in Cardiff but never joined the club, instead starting his career at Southampton’s youth academy and later the first-time before spells at Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>, Real Madrid<\/a> and LAFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It [Cardiff] is a club close to my heart. It’s where I grew up and I would love to be able to be a part of growing Cardiff and taking it to the Premier League<\/a> where it belongs.<\/p>\n

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“I know how amazing the Welsh fans and Cardiff fans are. It would be amazing to try and do something together.<\/p>\n

“We are trying to engage with Cardiff and more news will come out on that in the future but hopefully we can get something done.”<\/p>\n

Cardiff were a Premier League club as recently as 2018-19 but were relegated after one season. They have since spent six years in the Championship before being relegated this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales great Gareth Bale never played for his hometown club Cardiff City.\u00a0Getty Images Gareth Bale has confirmed that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-209786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114737161432560000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209786","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=209786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}