{"id":8273,"date":"2013-06-05T07:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T07:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/michael-essien-to-return-to-black-stars\/"},"modified":"2013-06-05T07:54:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T07:54:55","slug":"michael-essien-to-return-to-black-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/michael-essien-to-return-to-black-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Essien To Return to Black Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien will resume his international career with the Ghana Black Stars in September.}}<\/p>\n<p>According to sources from Ghana, Essien now feels ready to return to the Black Stars after a successful loan spell at Spanish giants Real Madrid, after initially having concerns over his fitness.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder had asked for time off to assess his fitness after suffering two major injuries whilst playing for the Black Stars; one of which cost him a place in Ghana\u2019s 2010 World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Essien is expected to officially confirm his return to the Black Stars after his charity match, \u201cThe Game of Hope\u201d, at the Accra Sports Stadium on June 8 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Essien will thus be available to play for the Black Stars in September\u2019s crucial 2014 World Cup qualifier against Zambia in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>{footy-ghana}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien will resume his international career with the Ghana Black Stars in September.}} According to sources from Ghana, Essien now feels ready to return to the Black Stars after a successful loan spell at Spanish giants Real Madrid, after initially having concerns over his fitness. The midfielder had asked for time off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}