{"id":10050,"date":"2013-02-06T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/06\/brit-asian-footie-ace-lands-new-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:19:43","slug":"brit-asian-footie-ace-lands-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/06\/brit-asian-footie-ace-lands-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit Asian Footie ace lands new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Malvind Singh Benning lands two-and-a-half-year deal with Walsall FC <\/h3>\n<div><strong>WALSALL ace Malvind Singh Benning has signed a new two and-a-half year deal with the Saddlers. <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 19 year-old local lad has progressed extremely well whilst coming through the Banks&#8217;s Stadium ranks and made his senior debut for the club in November 2012.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Three starts have followed since then for the assured\u00a0and reliable full-back who won the Apprentice of the Year award last season.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Mal is a great prospect for this club,&#8221; said manager, Dean Smith. &#8220;I have known him since he was an Under-15 player here and he has just got better and better during that time.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;He has taken the opportunity that has been given to him and showed that he can handle playing at this level.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;This new deal gives him a great chance to continue that progression; he has a fantastic attitude and I know that he will continue to work hard at his game.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;He&#8217;s another real talent to come off the production line here.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Pleased with the deal Malvind said he knew the hard work starts now if he wants to be the best he can for the Walsall club. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;At the start of the season I wanted to establish myself and do well for the reserves, but things have gone really well so far and to get my chance in the first-team at this stage of my career has exceeded my expectations,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been pleased with my performances so far. Each game has been a learning curve for me, but I&#8217;d like to think that I have proved what I am capable of.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s not often that a first-year professional gets handed such a deal after just a handful of first-team games; I know that the hard work is only just starting for me and hopefully I can get a run in the team and continue to make progress.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Walsall have a reputation for bringing through young, local talent and the fact that so many of the first-team squad have come through the ranks here made it easier for me to settle in and certainly helps with the spirit and togetherness.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malvind Singh Benning lands two-and-a-half-year deal with Walsall FC WALSALL ace Malvind Singh Benning has signed a new two and-a-half year deal with the Saddlers. &#13; The 19 year-old local lad has progressed extremely well whilst coming through the Banks&#8217;s Stadium ranks and made his senior debut for the club in November 2012. &#13; Three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}