{"id":5527,"date":"2026-06-25T20:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:50:56","slug":"ecuador-defender-piero-hincapie-makes-permanent-arsenal-move-while-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5527","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Defender Piero Hincapi\u00e9 Makes Permanent Arsenal Move While At World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Arsenal completed the permanent signing of Ecuador defender Piero Hincapi\u00e9 on Thursday ahead of his country&#8217;s crucial group match against Germany at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Hincapi\u00e9 met the conditions for a full-time contract with the English champion during last season&#8217;s loan deal with the team from Bayer Leverkusen. He will be an Arsenal player officially from Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The 24-year-old Hincapi\u00e9 made 39 appearances in all competitions for Arsenal last season, mainly sharing left back duties with Riccardo Calafiori.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Hincapi\u00e9 played the full match in each of Ecuador&#8217;s first two group fixtures at the World Cup \u2014 a 1-0 loss to Ivory Coast and a 0-0 draw with Cura\u00e7ao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><i>Reporting by the Associated Press.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Arsenal completed the permanent signing of Ecuador defender Piero Hincapi\u00e9 on Thursday ahead of his country&#8217;s crucial group match against Germany at the World Cup. Hincapi\u00e9 met the conditions for a full-time contract with the English champion during last season&#8217;s loan deal with the team from Bayer Leverkusen. He will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}