{"id":283065,"date":"2026-06-27T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:25:06","slug":"cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Gakpo requests privacy after death of unborn son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son\/\">Cody Gakpo requests privacy after death of unborn son<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son\/\">https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 17:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.vanguardngr.com\">www.vanguardngr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo has asked for \u201cprivacy and space\u201d following the loss of his unborn son, which was announced by his partner Noa van der Bij.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Bij posted a picture on Instagram of the pair holding hands over a blanket and knitted hat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith broken hearts, we share the devastating news that our baby boy passed away during pregnancy,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your love and support. Elijah Raphael Gakpo. Forever loved. Forever our son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also posted a photo of a candle and cross, with the message: \u201cWe went to church to light a candle. Afterward, we walked to the church playground with our son Samuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was only one other child there. His name was Elijah. There could not have been a more beautiful sign from God. He reminded us that our little boy is never far away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a post of his own, Liverpool forward Gakpo, who is on World Cup duty, wrote: \u201cThis is an incredibly difficult time for our family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kindly ask for our privacy and space. Thank you for your understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gakpo, 27, has started all three of the Netherlands\u2019 games in the United States, scoring twice.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Koeman\u2019s team, who topped their World Cup group, play Morocco in the last 32 in Mexico on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Gakpo requests privacy after death of unborn son https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-requests-privacy-after-death-of-unborn-son\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-27 17:41:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cody-Gakpo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283067,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283065\/revisions\/283067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}