{"id":252078,"date":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252078"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:24:19","slug":"kwadwo-asamoah-out-for-6-weeks-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252078","title":{"rendered":"Kwadwo Asamoah out for 6 weeks with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Kwadwo Asamoah will miss 6 weeks of action after tests revealed a knee injury suffered during Juventus\u2019 1-0 away win at Palermo in the Serie A on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The player came off the bench in the 68th minute to replace Miralem Pjanic but after the match, tests showed that there was a problem with his knee.<\/p>\n<p>Juventus\u2019 website stated that Asamoah had \u201csuffered a rupture of the medial meniscus ligament in his right knee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to have surgery in coming days which will rule him out of Juventus\u2019 matches against AC Milan, Napoli, Lyon and Dinamo Zagreb.<\/p>\n<p>He will also miss Ghana\u2019s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Uganda in October.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is a setback for the player who was beginning to get games for Juventus this season after missing a large part of the 2015 calendar year due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Kwadwo Asamoah will miss 6 weeks of action after tests revealed a knee injury suffered during Juventus\u2019 1-0 away win at Palermo in the Serie A on Saturday. The player came off the bench in the 68th minute to replace Miralem Pjanic but after the match, tests showed that there was a problem with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[142],"tags":[564,1240,4561],"class_list":["post-252078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-citi-sports","tag-ghana-sports","tag-kwadwo-asamoah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252078","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}