{"id":149712,"date":"2015-09-08T04:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T04:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149712"},"modified":"2015-09-08T04:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T04:50:21","slug":"balotelli-told-to-lose-weight-by-milan-boss-sinisa-mihajlovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=149712","title":{"rendered":"Balotelli told to lose weight by Milan boss Sinisa Mihajlovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite scoring on his second AC Milan debut, Mario Balotelli was still unable to avoid controversy, as he was told by manager\u00a0Sinisa Mihajlovic that he needs to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>Balotelli scored one, set up another and won a penalty in Milan\u2019s 3-2 friendly win over fourth division side Modena on Thursday, but that wasn\u2019t enough for his boss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not played for a while and he still has to improve,\u201d Mihajlovic told La Gazzetta dello Sport, via the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s training well and his physical tests are satisfactory, but he\u2019s three kilogrammes overweight: he\u2019s on a diet and when he\u2019s ready he will play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Italian faces a race to prove his fitness if he wants to make the side for Milan\u2019s next match, away to rivals Inter on September 13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credit:Bleacherreport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite scoring on his second AC Milan debut, Mario Balotelli was still unable to avoid controversy, as he was told by manager\u00a0Sinisa Mihajlovic that he needs to lose weight. Balotelli scored one, set up another and won a penalty in Milan\u2019s 3-2 friendly win over fourth division side Modena on Thursday, but that wasn\u2019t enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":149713,"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-149712","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\/149712","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}