{"id":26352,"date":"2015-10-18T03:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T03:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/soccer-man-city-striker-bony-confirms-he-had-malaria\/"},"modified":"2015-10-18T03:41:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T03:41:38","slug":"soccer-man-city-striker-bony-confirms-he-had-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/soccer-man-city-striker-bony-confirms-he-had-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Man City striker Bony confirms he had malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<p>Oct 17 (Reuters) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Manchester City striker Wilfried Bony, who has struggled for form and fitness since moving to the club in January, has confirmed he contracted malaria during the close season.<\/p>\n<p>              The Ivory Coast forward did not go on City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pre-season tour of Australia and Vietnam, with the club saying at the time that Bony was ill, without giving more details.<\/p>\n<p>              Manager Manuel Pellegrini mentioned in a news conference this week that the striker had contracted malaria, though he now looks to be back to full fitness and scored twice in a 5-1 thrashing of Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              Bony was quoted by British media as saying: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I got malaria from Africa when I was coming back but I am okay now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>              The 26-year-old signed from Swansea City for about 30 million pounds ($46.32 million) at the start of the year. His debut was delayed due to his involvement in the Africa Cup of Nations and he was also hampered by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>              \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel I have turned the corner,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have had a lot of injuries and been sick, and feel that is all away from me now.<\/p>\n<p>              \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just want to do my job, do my best in training and score when I get my chance in the match. Every striker is happy when he scores, especially when the team wins.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>              ($1 = 0.6477 pounds)   (Writing by Ken Ferris; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<ul id=\"topics\" class=\"hidden\">\n<li>Soccer<\/li>\n<li>Sports  Recreation<\/li>\n<li>Wilfried Bony<\/li>\n<li>Manchester City<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 17 (Reuters) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Manchester City striker Wilfried Bony, who has struggled for form and fitness since moving to the club in January, has confirmed he contracted malaria during the close season. The Ivory Coast forward did not go on City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pre-season tour of Australia and Vietnam, with the club saying at the time that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}