{"id":304246,"date":"2015-10-29T06:57:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T06:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/good-to-be-back-jonathan-mensah-thrilled-to-return-after-fifa-ban\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T06:57:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T06:57:14","slug":"good-to-be-back-jonathan-mensah-thrilled-to-return-after-fifa-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/10\/29\/good-to-be-back-jonathan-mensah-thrilled-to-return-after-fifa-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Good to be back: Jonathan Mensah thrilled to return after FIFA ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"bodytext\" readability=\"48.08262454435\">\n<p>Evian TG defender Jonathan Mensah has expressed his delight on ending a four-month ban slapped by FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana international was banned after he moved from Udinese in Italy to Evian in France at a time when he was still under contract with the Italians.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old old officially completed his suspension on Monday, having been banned for an illegality regarding his move from Udinese to Evian in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have not been playing games but I have to play my games in the gyms and on the training pitches but ultimately I am happy to be back playing again,&#8217; Mensah told\u00a0<em>TV3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have been training very hard. I thank my family, everyone that helped me, my team as well. Fitness wise, I feel very okay.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>For more sports news visit <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allsports.com.gh\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allSports.com.gh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Evian TG defender Jonathan Mensah has expressed his delight on ending a four-month ban slapped by FIFA. The Ghana international was banned after he moved from Udinese in Italy to Evian in France at a time when he was still under contract with the Italians. The 25-year-old old officially completed his suspension on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}