{"id":468836,"date":"2018-03-01T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/thomas-partey-signs-new-contract-with-atletico-madrid\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:15:47","slug":"thomas-partey-signs-new-contract-with-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/01\/thomas-partey-signs-new-contract-with-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Partey signs new contract with Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday,  1 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Kwese.espn.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/30784635.295.jpg\" alt=\"Partey Stretch\" title=\"Partey Stretch\" width=\"295\" height=\"443\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Thomas Partey has been<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1519920947_52_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Atletico Madrid announced on Thursday that midfielder Thomas Partey has signed a new contract, committing him to the club until June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Partey, 24, has started 19 of his 24 league appearances for Atletico this season. His current deal was due to expire in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A Ghana international, Partey arrived at Atletico in 2011, made his first-team debut in November 2015 and has scored nine goals in 82 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to renew my contract with the club of my life,&#8221; Partey told the club&#8217;s website. &#8220;I hope to continue here for many more years and help the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always try to work hard. It&#8217;s not easy to make the first team and for me, it gives me pride to continue to work for this club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Partey made 10 starts in all competitions for Atletico last season but has seen that number almost triple with three months still to play in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see myself well [and] happy because I&#8217;m playing a lot more minutes,&#8221; Partey said. &#8220;The team is strong, scoring many goals in the last few games and we are going to keep fighting to remain high up in the standings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Atletico are second in La Liga and have taken 25 points in their last nine games heading into Sunday&#8217;s game at leaders Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 58 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Thursday, 1 March 2018 Source: Kwese.espn.com 2018-03-01 Thomas Partey has been Atletico Madrid announced on Thursday that midfielder Thomas Partey has signed a new contract, committing him to the club until June 2023. Partey, 24, has started 19 of his 24 league appearances for Atletico this season. His current deal was due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":428897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}