{"id":254371,"date":"2016-10-03T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254371"},"modified":"2016-10-03T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:12:38","slug":"cameroon-legend-rigobert-song-in-hospital-after-cerebral-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254371","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon legend Rigobert Song in hospital after ‘cerebral attack’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Cameroon international Rigobert Song is in hospital after suffering a “cerebral attack”, a member of his family has told the BBC.<\/p>\n

The family member also said the 40-year-old was “unconscious” when he was taken to Yaounde Central Hospital.<\/p>\n

Song played 137 times for his country and had spells with English clubs Liverpool and West Ham.<\/p>\n

He has been working as a coach for Cameroon’s football federation following his departure as Chad coach.<\/p>\n

Former Cameroon team-mate Samuel Eto’o tweeted in French: <\/i><\/a>“I wish you courage and a speedy recovery big brother.”<\/p>\n

Ex-Liverpool players Jamie Carragher, Stan Collymore and Robbie Fowler have also sent messages of support, while Liverpool tweeted: <\/i><\/a>“Our thoughts are with Rigobert Song and his family at this time.”<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Cameroon international Rigobert Song is in hospital after suffering a “cerebral attack”, a member of his family has told the BBC. The family member also said the 40-year-old was “unconscious” when he was taken to Yaounde Central Hospital. Song played 137 times for his country and had spells with English clubs Liverpool and West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":254373,"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":[1],"tags":[12246,12247],"class_list":["post-254371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cameroon-national-team","tag-rigobert-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254371","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}