{"id":17161,"date":"2010-02-25T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17161"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:40:32","slug":"kuqi-puts-club-before-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/02\/25\/kuqi-puts-club-before-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuqi Puts Club Before Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City striker has agreed with the Finnish team that he does not have to travel for next week&#8217;s friendly match and instead can stay with the Swans to prepare for their top of the table clash at Nottingham Forest a week on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his decision via the club&#8217;s official site, Kuqi said &#8220;I spoke with the coach in Finland and he understood my situation<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We [Swansea] have seven games in March so it is a very busy time for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is going to be a lot of travelling involved and as the game in Malta was only a friendly I asked if I could be left out of the squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And to be fair he was he was happy for me to stay behind and for that I am grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful to Shefki for staying with us because we can now prepare with him,&#8221; said Paulo Sousa via the same source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an important decision for us especially with so many games in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s very important that the Finland have shown a compromise in this situation, for which I am also grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City striker has agreed with the Finnish team that he does not have to travel for next week&#8217;s friendly match and instead can stay with the Swans to prepare for their top of the table clash at Nottingham Forest a week on Saturday. Explaining his decision via the club&#8217;s official site, Kuqi said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}