{"id":14188,"date":"2012-09-03T03:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/corrected-soccer-pienaar-pulls-out-of-brazil-friendly\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T03:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:36:45","slug":"corrected-soccer-pienaar-pulls-out-of-brazil-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/corrected-soccer-pienaar-pulls-out-of-brazil-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTED-Soccer-Pienaar pulls out of Brazil friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Corrects Aktobe to Luzern in third para)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 2<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa captain Steven<br \/>\nPienaar has pulled out of Friday&#8217;s friendly against Brazil in<br \/>\nSao Paulo, a statement from the country&#8217;s football association<br \/>\nsaid on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Everton midfielder withdrew from the game after pulling<br \/>\na thigh muscle during Saturday&#8217;s 2-0 defeat by West Bromwich<br \/>\nAlbion in the English Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Racing Genk full back Anele Ngcongca, who picked up an<br \/>\ninjury in his team&#8217;s UEFA Europa League tie against Luzern last<br \/>\nweek, is also missing while South Africa Footballer of the Year<br \/>\nSiyabonga Nomvethe is a doubt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s match is the first in charge for new South Africa<br \/>\ncoach Gordon Igesund, brought in after the 2010 World Cup hosts<br \/>\nfailed to win either of their opening two qualifiers for the<br \/>\n2014 finals in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Tim Hart)<\/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>(Corrects Aktobe to Luzern in third para) JOHANNESBURG, Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa captain Steven Pienaar has pulled out of Friday&#8217;s friendly against Brazil in Sao Paulo, a statement from the country&#8217;s football association said on Sunday. The Everton midfielder withdrew from the game after pulling a thigh muscle during Saturday&#8217;s 2-0 defeat by [&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-14188","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\/14188","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=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}