{"id":12497,"date":"2012-07-17T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/soccer-vidic-fitness-boost-for-manchester-united\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:55:00","slug":"soccer-vidic-fitness-boost-for-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-vidic-fitness-boost-for-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Vidic fitness boost for Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, July 17<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Manchester United defender<br \/>\nNemanja Vidic will be fit for the start of the new Premier<br \/>\nLeague season, manager Alex Ferguson said on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vidic did not travel with the squad for a pre-season tour in<br \/>\nSouth Africa but Ferguson said the Serb was stepping up his<br \/>\ntraining schedule after recovering from a ruptured cruciate knee<br \/>\nligament he suffered in a Champions League game last December.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vidic will start the season. I am sure of that. He&#8217;s doing<br \/>\ngood amounts of training but not in the competitive sense in the<br \/>\nway the lads out here have done,&#8221; Ferguson told United&#8217;s website<br \/>\n(www.manutd.com).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s title bid was hampered by defensive injuries last<br \/>\nseason but Ferguson was also optimistic on the prospects of<br \/>\nChris Smalling recovering from a groin injury in time for the<br \/>\nopening game of the season away at Everton on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chris Smalling has actually done a bit of training. But the<br \/>\nruptured groin muscle he suffered needed a lot of attention.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s making progress and we expect him to start the season,&#8221; the<br \/>\nScot said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jonny Evans also missed the South Africa trip after having<br \/>\nan operation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;ll start the season but he won&#8217;t be far<br \/>\naway,&#8221; Ferguson said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>United face AmaZulu in Durban on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by John O&#8217;Brien)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic will be fit for the start of the new Premier League season, manager Alex Ferguson said on Tuesday. Vidic did not travel with the squad for a pre-season tour in South Africa but Ferguson said the Serb was stepping up his training schedule after recovering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}