{"id":76014,"date":"2025-10-02T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76014"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:00:55","slug":"manchester-united-seal-deal-for-colombian-teen-midfielder-orozco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/02\/manchester-united-seal-deal-for-colombian-teen-midfielder-orozco\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Seal Deal for Colombian Teen Midfielder Orozco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United have finalized the signing of Colombian midfield prospect Cristian Orozco from Fortaleza CEIF, with all paperwork for the transfer now complete.<\/p>\n<p>Orozco, 17, who captains Colombia\u2019s U-17 national team, will officially join United when he turns 18 next year due to FIFA\u2019s international transfer regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, valued at about $1 million (\u00a3741,000), was confirmed by transfer expert Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<p>The highly rated youngster is the latest in a series of youth-focused signings by the Red Devils, following acquisitions such as Mali\u2019s Sekou Kone from Guidars FC and Diego Leon.<\/p>\n<p>Orozco caught United\u2019s eye with his commanding performances at the recent South American U-17 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Although unable to move to Manchester immediately, Orozco is regarded internally as a strong future first-team prospect.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival underscores United\u2019s growing strategy of investing in elite academy talent worldwide, a shift that has gained momentum in the post-Brexit era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; Manchester United have finalized the signing of Colombian midfield prospect Cristian Orozco from Fortaleza CEIF, with all paperwork for the transfer now complete. Orozco, 17, who captains Colombia\u2019s U-17 national team, will officially join United when he turns 18 next year due to FIFA\u2019s international transfer regulations. The deal, valued at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76016,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions\/76016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}