{"id":405749,"date":"2025-09-07T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405749\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:17:10","slug":"former-premiere-league-surprises-staff-at-glasgow-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405749\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Premiere League surprises staff at Glasgow restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Luis Nani stopped by Santa Lucia in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/merchant-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merchant City<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25447129.indie-rock-duo-announce-headline-show-glasgow\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indie rock duo announce headline show in Glasgow<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Italian restaurant posted the exciting news on Facebook, writing: &#8220;It was a pleasure to welcome you to Santa Lucia Merchant City, Luis Nani!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes as Nani took part in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/celtic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> FC Foundation Legends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/charity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charity<\/a> Match on Saturday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nani\u00a0played with the Manchester United Legends team, who lost 4-3 in penalties to Celtic FC,\u00a0with Lee Naylor netting the winning penalty.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Playing for Celtic FC was Hart, Lustig, Loovens, Ambrose, Mulgrew, Naylor, Crosas, Ledley, Rogic, McDonald, Vennegoor of Hesselink.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, playing for Manchester United was van der Gouw, Simpson, Pugh, Blackett, Silvestre, Fletcher, Berbatov, Djemba Djemba, Carrick, Saha, Nani.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25447249.concern-missing-man-last-seen-four-days-ago\/?rel=cl_lsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Concern for missing man who was last seen four days ago<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The primary aim of the game was to raise money to support Celtic FC Foundation projects, specifically Paradise Pit Stop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It provides a free warm meal and a selection of hot and soft drinks, in a safe, non-judgmental and welcoming environment for individuals and families even Monday and Thursday evening, and every Wednesday and Friday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It\u2019s also an inclusive space where people from some of Glasgow\u2019s most vulnerable communities can access essential support services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Nani stopped by Santa Lucia in Merchant City.\u00a0 READ NEXT:\u00a0Indie rock duo announce headline show in Glasgow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115164154601339023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405749","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=405749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}