{"id":1826,"date":"2014-02-13T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2014-02-13T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T19:43:58","slug":"striker-to-miss-several-weeks-due-to-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/striker-to-miss-several-weeks-due-to-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Striker To Miss Several Weeks Due To Knee Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Juventus striker Mirko Vucinic has suffered a knee injury in train and will miss several weeks of the serie A season.<\/p>\n<p>Medical tests undertaken following the incident in Turin revealed a sprain to the Montenegro international&#8217;s right knee and a contusion to his shin, but ruled out ligament damage.<\/p>\n<p>A statement published on the Italian champions&#8217; official website said Vucinic, who came close to joining Inter Milan in January, could expect to miss several weeks of action.<\/p>\n<p>Home league games against Chievo and Torino &#8211; and the Europa League visit of Trabzonspor on February 20 &#8211; are therefore likely to elude the 30-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus striker Mirko Vucinic has suffered a knee injury in train and will miss several weeks of the serie A season. Medical tests undertaken following the incident in Turin revealed a sprain to the Montenegro international&#8217;s right knee and a contusion to his shin, but ruled out ligament damage. A statement published on the Italian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,82],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"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=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}