{"id":81386,"date":"2015-01-12T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=81386"},"modified":"2015-01-11T20:48:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T20:48:41","slug":"van-persie-undergo-scan-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=81386","title":{"rendered":"Van Persie to undergo scan on ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Manchester United striker Robin van Persie will have a scan on Monday on a damaged ankle and will miss the Ballon d&#8217;Or ceremony, despite being in the running for goal-of-the-year.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands international suffered the injury during United&#8217;s 1-0 home defeat by Southampton on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Van Persie was due in Zurich after being nominated for his 2014 World Cup diving header against Spain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoInStoryC story-feature\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_companion_27842125\" class=\"bbccom-advert bbccom_visibility_hidden bbccom_companion\">World Cup 2014: Robin van Persie scores with superb header<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But United boss Louis van Gaal said Van Persie would undergo a scan instead.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman was forced off in the 61st minute as Southampton leapfrogged United into third spot in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Van Persie is competing with Real Madrid&#8217;s Colombia international James Rodriguez and Republic of Ireland women&#8217;s international Stephanie Roche for the Puskas Award, named after the great Hungarian Ferenc Puskas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United striker Robin van Persie will have a scan on Monday on a damaged ankle and will miss the Ballon d&#8217;Or ceremony, despite being in the running for goal-of-the-year. The Netherlands international suffered the injury during United&#8217;s 1-0 home defeat by Southampton on Sunday. Van Persie was due in Zurich after being nominated for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":81387,"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],"class_list":["post-81386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81386","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=81386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}