{"id":30693,"date":"2018-05-10T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=30693"},"modified":"2018-05-10T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:45:29","slug":"dani-alves-expected-to-be-fit-for-fifa-world-cup-despite-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/dani-alves-expected-to-be-fit-for-fifa-world-cup-despite-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Alves expected to be fit for FIFA World Cup despite knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-details\">\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed Dani Alves suffered a knee injury in the Coupe de France final \u2013 but the defender should still be fit to play for Brazil at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The experienced full-back was hurt in the 80th minute of his side\u2019s 2-0 victory over Les Herbiers on Tuesday and, despite initially playing on, was eventually replaced by Thomas Meunier.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the problem, Dani Alves was still able to join his team-mates for the presentation ceremony at the Stade de France after PSG completed their third domestic treble in the past four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>There were initial fears the 35-year-old could miss out on being part of Brazil\u2019s squad for Russia, but the club are hopeful the player will not require surgery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zdt_display_placeholder_364294\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"zdt_display_placeholder_2949271\">\u00a0\u201cHis [Dani Alves\u2019] condition requires a minimum of three weeks of care before reassessing the need for surgical treatment,\u201d a statement from PSG said on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<p>The update will be welcome news for Brazil coach Tite, who names his final 23-man squad for the World Cup on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dani Alves was the first-choice right-back by the end of their successful qualifying campaign, while he captained his country in the 1-0 friendly win over Germany in March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed Dani Alves suffered a knee injury in the Coupe de France final \u2013 but the defender should still be fit to play for Brazil at the World Cup. The experienced full-back was hurt in the 80th minute of his side\u2019s 2-0 victory over Les Herbiers on Tuesday and, despite initially playing [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30695,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30693\/revisions\/30695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}