{"id":5349,"date":"2011-06-27T22:51:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2011-06-27T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:00:02","slug":"marcos-flores-leaves-adelaide-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5349","title":{"rendered":"Marcos Flores leaves Adelaide United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcosflores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5350\" title=\"marcosflores\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcosflores.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcosflores.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/marcosflores-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adelaide United announced today that star midfielder Marcos Flores would be leaving the club.\u00a0 Flores made a huge impact in his single season at AUFC, deservedly winning the Johnny Warren Player of the Year award.\u00a0 In its infancy, the A-League sure had its share of shitty import players that were overpaid and either put in a half-arsed effort or weren&#8217;t that great to begin with.\u00a0 Flores was nothing like that.\u00a0 He was a human highlight reel who played positive attacking football with real flair.\u00a0 He was brilliant on the field and off it he embraced the Adelaide supporters and was a wonderful ambassador for the game in Australia.\u00a0 In short, Flores was exactly what the A-League needed:\u00a0 <em>A guy that people would pay to see<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be an on-going challenge for the A-League in its current structure to compete with clubs around the world with bigger chequebooks.\u00a0 Currently, the salary cap for each club is $2.4 million for the entire squad.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a big believer of the salary cap system which offers a level playing field for all clubs to compete.\u00a0 The A-League in six years has already produced a greater variety of winners than the English or Scottish leagues have in the last twenty years.\u00a0 But when we&#8217;re losing talent like Flores to &lt;<em>double checks spelling<\/em>&gt; Henan Jianye FC for the princely sum of &lt;<em>squints<\/em>&gt; $500,000, you wonder if there isn&#8217;t more we could do to keep these people in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I feel lucky to have had a chance to see Flores play in person.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sad to see him go but wish him well.\u00a0 I leave you with a highlights package of his efforts from the A-League 2010\/11 season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"629\" height=\"358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mfhbmDubz1c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide United announced today that star midfielder Marcos Flores would be leaving the club.\u00a0 Flores made a huge impact in his single season at AUFC, deservedly winning the Johnny Warren Player of the Year award.\u00a0 In its infancy, the A-League sure had its share of shitty import players that were overpaid and either put in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[218,682,984,985,986],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-league","tag-adelaide-united","tag-aufc","tag-marcos-flores","tag-salary-cap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}