{"id":5571,"date":"2017-07-09T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2017-07-09T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:50:28","slug":"wayne-rooney-returns-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wayne-rooney-returns-everton\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney Returns to Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 13 years, 599 appearances, and 253 goals for Manchester United, soccer legend Wayne Rooney is returning to the club he first called home &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/clubs\/everton\/everton-index.html\">Everton<\/a>. A recently announced two-year deal with the Toffees brings the all-time Manchester United and England goal scorer back to the club he left in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Before he pulls on his blue shirt for the first time this year, let&#8217;s look at a few historic programs from his first stint at the Merseyside club.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney&#8217;s first appearance with Everton&#8217;s senior team was on August 17, 2002 in a home game against Tottenham Hotspur. He picked up an assist in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/2002-03\/08-17_thfc-efc.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=english-football\/seasons\/2002-03\/images\/english-football-program_2002-08-17_thfc-efc.jpg\" alt=\"Everton vs. Tottenham Hotspur (August 17, 2002)\" width=\"600\" height=\"844\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rooney scored his first goals for Everton nearly two months later, bagging a brace against Wrexham in a Football League Cup match on October 1, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/2002-03\/10-01_efc-wrfc.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=english-football\/seasons\/2002-03\/images\/english-football-program_2002-10-01_efc-wrfc.jpg\" alt=\"Wrexham vs. Everton (October 1, 2002)\" width=\"600\" height=\"856\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at a few Everton programs from Wayne Rooney&#8217;s first stint with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[284,140,400,449,230,14,563],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-2000s","tag-english-football","tag-everton","tag-football-league-cup","tag-premier-league","tag-programs","tag-wayne-rooney","wpcat-361-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}