{"id":142474,"date":"2021-10-11T07:10:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=142474"},"modified":"2021-10-11T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T10:00:49","slug":"teen-football-star-reveals-leukemia-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=142474","title":{"rendered":"Teen football star reveals leukemia battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/a-league\/a-league\" title=\"A-League\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A-League<\/a> talent Izaack Powell has revealed he&#x27;s been fighting leukemia since June.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/brisbane-roar\" title=\"Brisbane Roar\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brisbane Roar<\/a> defender shared the news on his Instagram page on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s been a challenging few months being told I had leukemia back in June, but I&#x27;ve been quite fortunate with how everything has gone since then,&quot; the teenager wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I wanna say a big thank you to my family, friends and my girlfriend who have supported me so far and I can&#x27;t wait to finish my treatment and return back to normality in the coming months.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CU16XI5JMew\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;amp\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-instagram\" data-show-caption=\"true\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CU16XI5JMew\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;amp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powell made history in becoming the youngest player to ever represent the Roar in the A-league.<\/p>\n<p>He was 16 years and 361 days old when he made his top-flight debut in 2019 against Sydney FC.<\/p>\n<p>He played every game for Australia at the under 17s World Cup in Brazil in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/tyson-fury-v-deontay-wilder-3-boxing-fight-broken-hand-trainer-malik-scott\/31e27f3b-df86-49f6-8abd-5ec7693cf802\"><strong>Deontay Wilder broke his hand during KO loss to Tyson Fury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/formula-1-turkish-grand-prix-results-valtteri-bottas-mercedes-daniel-ricciardo-mclaren-lewis-hamilton\/614da61d-235a-40cc-96ff-38db680105f1\" title=\"\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Daniel Ricciardo struggles in Turkish Grand Prix<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAhkOKvJ1jc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;amp\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-instagram\" data-show-caption=\"true\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAhkOKvJ1jc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;amp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Young A-League talent Izaack Powell has revealed he&#x27;s been fighting leukemia since June. The 19-year-old Brisbane Roar defender shared the news on his Instagram page <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=142474\" title=\"Teen football star reveals leukemia battle\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142476,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142474\/revisions\/142476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}