{"id":755517,"date":"2022-01-18T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/gabon-releases-aubameyang-from-afcon-to-arsenal-on-health-grounds\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:37:09","slug":"gabon-releases-aubameyang-from-afcon-to-arsenal-on-health-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/gabon-releases-aubameyang-from-afcon-to-arsenal-on-health-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon Releases Aubameyang From AFCON &#8230;To Arsenal On Health Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been released from Gabon\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations squad and will return to Arsenal because of the striker\u2019s ongoing health issues.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old missed Gabon\u2019s draw with Ghana on Friday after scans revealed \u201cheart lesions\u201d following a bout of Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang tested positive on arrival in Cameroon on January 6.<\/p>\n<p>He will undergo further medical checks upon his return to Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Nice midfielder Mario Lemina has also been released from the Gabon squad after \u201cheart lesions\u201d were also found on the ex-Southampton player\u2019s scan.<\/p>\n<p>Gabon\u2019s statement said: \u201cThe Gabonese Football Federation has decided to put the players Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mario Lemina at the disposal of their clubs to continue the in-depth examinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang, who also tested positive for Covid in August, has not played for Arsenal since he was dropped and stripped of the club captaincy last month for disciplinary reasons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been released from Gabon\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations squad and will return to Arsenal because of the striker\u2019s ongoing health issues. The 32-year-old missed Gabon\u2019s draw with Ghana on Friday after scans revealed \u201cheart lesions\u201d following a bout of Covid. Aubameyang tested positive on arrival in Cameroon on January 6. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,1783,1609,1113,2191,403,2192],"class_list":["post-755517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-arsenal","tag-aubameyang","tag-gabon","tag-grounds","tag-health","tag-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}