{"id":286049,"date":"2017-01-18T16:21:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286049"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T16:21:36","slug":"ghanas-baba-rahman-ruled-out-of-afcon-after-injuring-his-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286049","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s Baba Rahman ruled out of AFCON after injuring his knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has been hit with a massive blow at the Africa Cup of Nations as defender Baba Rahman has been ruled out of the tournament after his club Schalke revealed he will be returning to Germany further examination.<\/p>\n<p>The Bundesliga side have confirmed the left-back suffered a bruised meniscus and will have to be assessed by experts at Gelsenkirchen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Initial diagnosis of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Baba?src=hash\">#Baba<\/a>&#8216;s injury shows a bruised meniscus. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/S04?src=hash\">#S04<\/a> man is returning to Gelsenkirchen for further examination. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IcuuJ0CXfG\">pic.twitter.com\/IcuuJ0CXfG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Schalke 04 (@s04_en) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s04_en\/status\/821727527689392128\">January 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rahman was replaced after 39 minutes and had to be stretchered off during the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/17\/ghana-1-0-uganda-ayew-penalty-gives-stars-opening-afcon-win\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">1-0 win over Uganda<\/span><\/a><\/strong> in Port Gentil on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association announced on Wednesday that the player had flown to the Gabonese capital Libreville to ascertain the severity of the injury.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has been hit with a massive blow at the Africa Cup of Nations as defender Baba Rahman has been ruled out of the tournament after his club Schalke revealed he will be returning to Germany further examination. The Bundesliga side have confirmed the left-back suffered a bruised meniscus and will have to be assessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[],"class_list":["post-286049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286049","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}