{"id":6479,"date":"2011-12-28T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T11:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/soccer-zambia-give-up-hope-of-mulenga-recovery\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T11:02:30","slug":"soccer-zambia-give-up-hope-of-mulenga-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-zambia-give-up-hope-of-mulenga-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Zambia give up hope of Mulenga recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Zambia have given up<br \/>\nhope Dutch-based striker Jacob Mulenga will recover in time from<br \/>\ninjury and left him out of their preliminary squad for next<br \/>\nmonth&#8217;s African Nations Cup finals.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mulenga suffered a knee injury in action for FC Utrecht in<br \/>\nOctober but Zambia were hopeful he would return after surgery in<br \/>\ntime for the tournament in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, which<br \/>\nstarts on Jan. 21.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, coach Herve Renard has confirmed Mulenga&#8217;s recovery<br \/>\nwould take longer than expected and that he would miss the<br \/>\nNations Cup for a second successive time.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Striker Jonas Sakuwaha had been recalled to the squad, which<br \/>\nwill be cut to 23 from 28 on Jan. 10, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zambia began preparations in Johannesburg on Wednesday and<br \/>\nplay a warm-up against South Africa in Pretoria on Jan. 11.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the Nations Cup, Zambia compete in Group A along with<br \/>\nco-hosts Equatorial Guinea, Libya and Senegal.<br \/>\n (Reporting by Mark Gleeson; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please double-click on the newslink:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>for more soccer stories<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Zambia have given up hope Dutch-based striker Jacob Mulenga will recover in time from injury and left him out of their preliminary squad for next month&#8217;s African Nations Cup finals. Mulenga suffered a knee injury in action for FC Utrecht in October but Zambia were hopeful he would return after [&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-6479","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\/6479","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=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}