
{"id":2874,"date":"2014-03-19T23:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2014-03-19T23:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:43:10","slug":"etoo-prays-chelsea-draw-barca-in-ucl-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/etoo-prays-chelsea-draw-barca-in-ucl-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Eto&#8217;o Prays Chelsea Draw Barca In UCL Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Eto&#8217;o says he will leave Chelsea if former club Inter Milan makes a move for him when his deal expires at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old signed a one-year contract with the Blues last summer, meaning that he will be a free agent at the end of the season if his deal is not extended.<\/p>\n<p>Eto&#8217;o spent two years in Milan where he played under current boss Jose Mourinho and claimed the UEFA Champions League and Serie A title.<\/p>\n<p>The striker, who has netted 10 goals in all competitions since joining Chelsea, refused to rule out the possibility of moving back to the San Siro despite a change in presidency since his time there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If (Massimo) Moratti calls me, why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that Inter has a new president (Erick Thohir) but Moratti is still there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eto&#8217;o netted the opener as Chelsea secured their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, beating Galatasaray 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to win 3-1 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The game marked the return of Didier Drogba, who left Chelsea in 2012 having scored 157 goals for the club, and Eto&#8217;o says that the Ivorian deserved the warm reception he got as the hosts cruised to victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made the match easy because we scored early,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very happy for Didier Drogba with the welcome of the fans as he achieved so many nice things here. I wish him the very best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked who he would prefer to face in the last eight, Eto&#8217;o replied: &#8220;Barca, Real or PSG, even if I am Parisian, I will have to defend Chelsea colours and get through.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Eto&#8217;o says he will leave Chelsea if former club Inter Milan makes a move for him when his deal expires at Stamford Bridge. The 33-year-old signed a one-year contract with the Blues last summer, meaning that he will be a free agent at the end of the season if his deal is not extended. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"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\/2874"}],"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=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}