{"id":7588,"date":"2010-04-25T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2010-04-25T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:00:13","slug":"ghanas-john-pantsil-returns-to-action-for-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=7588","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s John Pantsil returns to action for Fulham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ghana defender John Pantsil returned to Fulham&#8217;s starting team on Sunday for the first time since breaking his ankle in December.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 (<em>John Pantsil played his first official game for Fulham since December)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 28-year-old&#8217;s return in a timely boost for the Black Stars World Cup campaign in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pantsil, Ghana&#8217;s first-choice right-back, has undergone treatment since suffering the knee injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suffered the knee injury in the Cottagers&#8217; West London derby defeat against Chelsea in December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was named in the starting team for Sunday&#8217;s Premier League game against Everton at Goodison Park and he played the entire duration of the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his absence, Panstil underwent an operation to cure the posterior cruciate ligament problem that prevented him from playing at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola in January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His return to action for Fulham means he will be good form for the Black Stars for the World Cup in South Africa in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana will face Germany, Serbia and Australia in the group stage of the World Cup which stars on 11 June.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana defender John Pantsil returned to Fulham&#8217;s starting team on Sunday for the first time since breaking his ankle in December.\u00c2\u00a0 (John Pantsil played his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[2817,2818,2819],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-black-stars-world-cup-campaign","tag-ghana-defender","tag-john-pantsil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}