{"id":449,"date":"2014-01-17T18:40:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=449"},"modified":"2014-01-17T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:41:24","slug":"neymar-out-for-up-to-four-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/neymar-out-for-up-to-four-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar Out For Up To Four Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AFP) Barcelona will be without\u00a0Neymar\u00a0for between three and four weeks after he badly twisted an ankle in Thursday&#8217;s Copa del Rey win at Getafe, the club has announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tests carried out this Friday morning have confirmed that\u00a0Neymar\u00a0is suffering from a sprained right ankle. He will be out for approximately three to four weeks,&#8221; a statement on Barcelona&#8217;s website read.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian therefore faces a race against time to be fit for\u00a0<em>Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>UEFA Champions League last 16, first leg away to Manchester City on 18\u00a0February.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered the nasty-looking injury midway through the first half of Thursday&#8217;s 2-0 win against Getafe and was replaced by Alexis Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona progressed 6-0 on aggregate to set up a quarter-final tie against Levante.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AFP) Barcelona will be without\u00a0Neymar\u00a0for between three and four weeks after he badly twisted an ankle in Thursday&#8217;s Copa del Rey win at Getafe, the club has announced. &#8220;Tests carried out this Friday morning have confirmed that\u00a0Neymar\u00a0is suffering from a sprained right ankle. He will be out for approximately three to four weeks,&#8221; a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37,66,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}