{"id":297122,"date":"2017-02-25T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T08:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297122"},"modified":"2017-02-25T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T08:30:43","slug":"i-still-have-football-in-me-michael-essien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/i-still-have-football-in-me-michael-essien\/","title":{"rendered":"I still have football in me – Michael Essien"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien insists he will not bring an end to his career despite being without a club in the last six months.<\/p>\n
The former AC Milan and Real Madrid combative enforcer has been training with Chelsea to keep fit ahead of a potential move abroad. Essien, even though he refuses to admit is coming to the end of a career that has seen him flourish and will go down as one of the best midfielders from Africa to have played in the English Premier League.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remain active and train with Chelsea (Reserves) who are always polite and good against me,\u201d Essien told gazzetta.gr.<\/p>\n
The Ghanaian won two Premier League titles with Chelsea and a UEFA Champions League title.<\/p>\n
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By Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com \/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien insists he will not bring an end to his career despite being without a club in the last six months. The former AC Milan and Real Madrid combative enforcer has been training with Chelsea to keep fit ahead of a potential move abroad. Essien, even though he refuses to admit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142,11],"tags":[455,564,4406,3,4407],"yoast_head":"\n