{"id":70828,"date":"2014-12-03T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T10:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=70828"},"modified":"2014-12-03T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:46:16","slug":"kwadwo-asamoah-to-miss-the-afcon-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=70828","title":{"rendered":"Kwadwo Asamoah to miss the AFCON 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus and Ghana midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah will be out of action for at least three months after undergoing keyhole surgery on Tuesday, ruling him out of the African Nations Cup in January.<\/p>\n<p>The Serie A champions and current leaders said the surgery was necessary because of a cartilage problem in the 25-year-old\u2019s left knee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mesut-Oezil-of-Germany-challenges-Kwadwo-Asamoah-of-Ghana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26545\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mesut-Oezil-of-Germany-challenges-Kwadwo-Asamoah-of-Ghana.jpg\" alt=\"Mesut Oezil of Germany challenges Kwadwo Asamoah of Ghana\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mesut-Oezil-of-Germany-challenges-Kwadwo-Asamoah-of-Ghana.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mesut-Oezil-of-Germany-challenges-Kwadwo-Asamoah-of-Ghana-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recovery time is estimated at not less than three to four months,\u201d said the Turin club in a statement. Asamoah, a left-sided midfielder who can also play at left back, has been a Ghana regular for the past five years and played at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_8656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20123 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_8656.jpg\" alt=\"Kwadwo Asamoah\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_8656.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_8656-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ghana are among the favourites to win the Nations Cup which will be held in Equatorial Guinea in January and February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: supersports,com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus and Ghana midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah will be out of action for at least three months after undergoing keyhole surgery on Tuesday, ruling him out of the African Nations Cup in January. The Serie A champions and current leaders said the surgery was necessary because of a cartilage problem in the 25-year-old\u2019s left knee. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":25529,"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":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-70828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70828","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}