{"id":136309,"date":"2015-07-21T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=136309"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:53:11","slug":"michael-essien-set-for-surgery-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=136309","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien set for surgery in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghanaian player Michael Essien is set to undergo surgery in Munich after the 32-year-old suffered a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Chelsea, Real Madrid and AC Milan player sustained the injury during a training session with Panathinaikos, a club where he transferred to in the current transfer window as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The player has flown to Germany where he will be going under the knife in a bid to recover soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Essien who was expected to make a debut in Panathinaikos\u2019 UEFA Champions League game against Club Brugge has now been left out of the squad as he battles with his injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The player will be out for some weeks after the surgery in Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Black Star had limited playing chances at his last club AC Milan and hoped for more games with Greek side Panathinaikos. An injury is a big blow to the dream and would hope to get back to playing action quickly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Allsports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian player Michael Essien is set to undergo surgery in Munich after the 32-year-old suffered a groin injury. The former Chelsea, Real Madrid and AC Milan player sustained the injury during a training session with Panathinaikos, a club where he transferred to in the current transfer window as a free agent. The player has flown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-136309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}