{"id":4838,"date":"2014-09-27T02:54:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T02:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2014-09-27T02:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T02:54:55","slug":"luis-enrique-dismisses-rumour-of-suarez-overweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/luis-enrique-dismisses-rumour-of-suarez-overweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Enrique Dismisses Rumour of Suarez &#8221;Overweight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luis Suarez&#8217;s appearance for Barcelona B against Indonesia U19s earlier this week ended with the Uruguayan scoring two goals but also sparked a debate over his weight.<\/p>\n<p>The striker appeared heavier than usual in some pictures\u2014perhaps a reflection that he has not been able to play anything but the occasional friendly since his four-month ban for biting Italy&#8217;s Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the debate was particularly keen, with Friday&#8217;s lead story in El Mundo Deportivo suggesting that a special programme was being designed to get Suarez back in shape for his return later next month:<\/p>\n<p>Barca boss Luis Enrique, asked about the rumours, denied all.<\/p>\n<p>According to quotes from Goal, Enrique said: &#8220;Suarez overweight? Not at all, that&#8217;s just press talk. That&#8217;s his normal weight, he was like that in Liverpool too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether he&#8217;s at his optimum weight, he&#8217;ll certainly have some rustiness to shake off before making his debut in the Clasico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Luis Suarez&#8217;s appearance for Barcelona B against Indonesia U19s earlier this week ended with the Uruguayan scoring two goals but also sparked a debate over his weight. The striker appeared heavier than usual in some pictures\u2014perhaps a reflection that he has not been able to play anything but the occasional friendly since his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838"}],"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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}