{"id":10175,"date":"2022-05-27T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=10175"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T09:17:09","slug":"archie-signs-at-west-brom-for-another-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/archie-signs-at-west-brom-for-another-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Signs at West Brom for Another Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/archie-williams-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/archie-williams-2022.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/archie-williams-2022-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Archie playing at the West Bromwich Albion Academy ground<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Football star, Archie Williams, is delighted with the news that he\u2019ll be staying on at West Bromwich Albion\u2019s Academy and moving up to the Under 13&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gifted Year 7 student, who was signed last season, has just been given another contract at the Birmingham club, but this time it\u2019s been extended to two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to securing a spot on the team, competition is extremely tough, with some players being dropped and new talent coming along every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archie\u2019s football career, which started at the age of five, has gone from strength to strength over the years, but the demand for commitment continues to ramp up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He trains three times a week at the WBA Academy ground, one session being on day-release from school, which includes lessons at the Academy as he\u2019s expected to keep on top of his schoolwork. Match day is on Sundays and this takes him all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proud grandad, Rob Williams, said: \u201cArchie is football mad and all he ever wants to do is play. He plays for West Brom, plays for the school and even has a kick about when he gets home. He also manages to get all of his homework done as that\u2019s something that is closely monitored by the Academy\u2019s Educations Officer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Archie on his fantastic news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football star, Archie Williams, is delighted with the news that he\u2019ll be staying on at West Bromwich Albion\u2019s Academy and moving up to the Under 13&#8217;s team. The gifted Year 7 student, who was signed last season, has just been given another contract at the Birmingham club, but this time it\u2019s been extended to two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/archie-signs-at-west-brom-for-another-two-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Archie Signs at West Brom for Another Two Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2,50,16],"class_list":["post-10175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-football","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}