{"id":777140,"date":"2026-02-20T12:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/777140\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:59:24","slug":"how-zinedine-zidane-helped-to-inspire-ryan-gravenberchs-trademark-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/777140\/","title":{"rendered":"How Zinedine Zidane helped to inspire Ryan Gravenberch&#8217;s trademark turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liverpool No.38 frequently cites Zidane as one of his major footballing inspirations as a youngster playing the game.<\/p>\n<p>And quoted in the latest official LFC matchday programme, Gravenberch detailed how studying clips of Zidane influenced his own style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve learned from Zidane just by watching clips of him, basically,&#8221; said Gravenberch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw the confidence he played with, the composure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like to turn in the midfield, for example, and he did this as well, so I tried to look at him and see the good things he did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I want to take some of that as well, but I try to bring my own things to the pitch also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now in his third season with the Reds, Gravenberch is linking up with a new face in the midfield this term in the form of summer signing Florian Wirtz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Liverpool No.38 frequently cites Zidane as one of his major footballing inspirations as a youngster playing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-777140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116103083811478402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777140","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=777140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}