{"id":7061,"date":"2012-01-15T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/soccer-hammer-blow-for-maedas-english-dream\/"},"modified":"2012-01-15T20:44:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:44:49","slug":"soccer-hammer-blow-for-maedas-english-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-hammer-blow-for-maedas-english-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Hammer blow for Maeda&#8217;s English dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">TOKYO<\/span> Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan striker Ryoichi<br \/>\nMaeda&#8217;s transfer to England&#8217;s West Ham United has collapsed, his<br \/>\nJ-League club Jubilo Iwata said on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, who scored 14 goals in 28 league<br \/>\nappearances last season, had been training with the English<br \/>\nChampionship (second division) side with a view to a move.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Iwata President Hiroyuki Yoshino told Japanese media: &#8220;We<br \/>\nunderstand they were unable to agree terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Maeda&#8217;s chances of a European move faded, however,<br \/>\nJubilo and Japan team mate Yuichi Komano is set for a switch to<br \/>\nBelgium&#8217;s Sint-Truiden.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Versatile defender Komano helped Japan reach the last 16 of<br \/>\nthe 2010 World Cup but missed the penalty in a shootout against<br \/>\nParaguay which cost them a spot in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Alastair Himmer; Editing by Peter Rutherford;<br \/>\nTo comment on this story email<br \/>\nsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Double-click on the newslinks:<\/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 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan striker Ryoichi Maeda&#8217;s transfer to England&#8217;s West Ham United has collapsed, his J-League club Jubilo Iwata said on Sunday. The 30-year-old, who scored 14 goals in 28 league appearances last season, had been training with the English Championship (second division) side with a view to a move. Iwata President [&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-7061","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\/7061","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=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}