{"id":452987,"date":"2011-07-04T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/04\/ghana-captain-john-mensah-gets-rousing-lyon-welcome\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T10:01:16","slug":"ghana-captain-john-mensah-gets-rousing-lyon-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/ghana-captain-john-mensah-gets-rousing-lyon-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Captain John Mensah Gets Rousing Lyon Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"51\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-33610\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/ghana-captain-john-mensah-gets-rousing-lyon-welcome\/mensahlyon\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33610\" title=\"Ghana captain John Mensah gets rousing Lyon welcome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mensahlyon-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana captain John Mensah has been given a rousing welcome on his return to French side Lyon after a two-year absence.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana captain John Mensah waves to Lyon fans on his return to the club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana captain John Mensah has been given a rousing welcome on his return to French side Lyon after a two-year absence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The defender started training the French side on Friday after spending two years on loan at English side Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>He was mobbed by his team-mates as they hailed his return to the team to fight for his position.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland opted not to give him a permanent deal which resulted in new Lyon coach R\u00e9mi Garde to give him a chance at the club.<\/p>\n<p>He will only stay at Lyon if he is guaranteed more playing time at the Stade Gerland.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah joined Lyon in the summer of 2008 but left the club the following year to Sunderland-where he spent two seasons on loan-after falling down the pecking order.<\/p>\n<p>With the departure of Claude Puel as head coach, the Rock of Gibraltar could see through the remainder of his five-year contract.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/ghana-captain-john-mensah-gets-rousing-lyon-welcome\/\" title=\"Ghana Captain John Mensah Gets Rousing Lyon Welcome\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghana Captain John Mensah Gets Rousing Lyon Welcome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ghana captain John Mensah waves to Lyon fans on his return to the club Ghana captain John Mensah has been given a rousing welcome on his return to French side Lyon after a two-year absence. The defender started training the French side on Friday after spending two years on loan at English side Sunderland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana Captain John Mensah Gets Rousing Lyon Welcome - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/ghana-captain-john-mensah-gets-rousing-lyon-welcome\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana Captain John Mensah Gets Rousing Lyon Welcome - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghana captain John Mensah waves to Lyon fans on his return to the club Ghana captain John Mensah has been given a rousing welcome on his return to French side Lyon after a two-year absence. 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