
{"id":1490,"date":"2014-02-06T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2014-02-06T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:34:08","slug":"former-united-player-aims-to-be-in-brazil-signs-short-term-contract-with-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/former-united-player-aims-to-be-in-brazil-signs-short-term-contract-with-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Former United Player Aims To Be In Brazil. Signs Short-Term Contract With Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Former Manchester United player Eric Djemba-Djemba hopes he can play his way to the World Cup finals in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Djemba-Djemba, who was released by Partizan Belgrade in December six months into a two-year deal, has agreed a short-term contract in Paisley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope the Cameroon manager can see me playing here and I can get in the squad,&#8221; said the 32-year-old, who already has 24 international caps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You never know. I would be very happy to play for my country again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djemba-Djemba has not been in the recent squads of Cameroon head coach Volker Finke but is hopeful of impressing the German.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just need to play football and enjoy myself,&#8221; he told BBC Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After that, we&#8217;ll see if the Cameroon manager will think about me. It will depend on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was former St Mirren manager Sir Alex Ferguson who first brought Djemba-Djemba to Britain when Manchester United paid Nantes \u00a33.5m for his services in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United player Eric Djemba-Djemba hopes he can play his way to the World Cup finals in Brazil. Djemba-Djemba, who was released by Partizan Belgrade in December six months into a two-year deal, has agreed a short-term contract in Paisley. &#8220;I hope the Cameroon manager can see me playing here and I can get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490"}],"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=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}