{"id":1215,"date":"2014-01-31T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T18:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2014-01-31T19:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T19:01:02","slug":"chelsea-completes-19-year-old-deal-from-st-etienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/chelsea-completes-19-year-old-deal-from-st-etienne\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Completes 19 Year Old Deal From St Etienne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Chelsea have completed a \u00a312m move for 19-year-old St Etienne centre-back Kurt Zouma.<\/p>\n<p>The France Under-21 player has agreed a five-and-a-half-year deal with the Blues, but will stay at St Etienne on loan for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Zouma has made 12 Ligue 1 appearances for the French side this season.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Lyon, Zouma joined St Etienne as a 15-year-old in 2009 before turning professional two years later.<\/p>\n<p>He has made 52 appearances for the club, scoring four goals.<\/p>\n<p>St Etienne president Roland Romeyer had previously said the player would not move in the transfer window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have completed a \u00a312m move for 19-year-old St Etienne centre-back Kurt Zouma. The France Under-21 player has agreed a five-and-a-half-year deal with the Blues, but will stay at St Etienne on loan for the rest of the season. Zouma has made 12 Ligue 1 appearances for the French side this season. Born in Lyon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}