{"id":653,"date":"2026-05-31T18:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=653"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:38:27","slug":"jayden-lienou-wales-call-up-teenage-leeds-united-left-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Jayden Lienou: Wales call up teenage Leeds United left-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage Leeds United left-back Jayden Lienou has been called up to the senior Wales squad for the first time for friendly matches against Ghana and Romania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wales Under-19s international, who turned 18 in April, joined Leeds&#8217; academy from Manchester City last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lienou has yet to make a first-team appearance for Leeds, but was an unused substitute in two Premier League matches earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Football Association of Wales did not say whether Lienou was replacing anybody in the squad when it announced his call-up on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales host Ghana at Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday, before facing Romania in Bucharest the following Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage Leeds United left-back Jayden Lienou has been called up to the senior Wales squad for the first time for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}