{"id":381452,"date":"2017-12-09T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=381452"},"modified":"2017-12-09T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T09:15:01","slug":"peru-captain-miss-world-cup-testing-positive-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=381452","title":{"rendered":"Peru captain to miss World Cup after testing positive for cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Peru captain and record scorer Paolo Guerrero has tested positive for cocaine and will serve a 12-month ban, ruling him out of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The striker, 33, tested positive for the stimulant after qualifier against Argentina on 5 October.<\/p>\n<p>The ban will be dated from 3 November, when he was provisionally suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Peru beat New Zealand over two legs in a play-off in November to qualify for the World Cup in Russia, their first appearance at the event since 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bayern Munich striker, who plays for Brazilian club Flamengo, has 33 goals in 84 appearances for his country.<\/p>\n<p>When news of his provisional suspension broke on 3 November, the Peruvian Football Federation thanked Guerrero for his \u201cimmense contribution\u201d and said the country stood with him in \u201csolidarity\u201d during \u201cdifficult moments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peru captain and record scorer Paolo Guerrero has tested positive for cocaine and will serve a 12-month ban, ruling him out of the World Cup. The striker, 33, tested positive for the stimulant after qualifier against Argentina on 5 October. The ban will be dated from 3 November, when he was provisionally suspended. Peru beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":381460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[15304,12700,337,15303],"class_list":["post-381452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coccain","tag-drug-test","tag-fifa","tag-peru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381452","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=381452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}