{"id":10953,"date":"2021-10-11T23:09:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=158392"},"modified":"2021-10-11T23:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:39:41","slug":"a-ray-of-hope-for-fc-barcelonas-attack-as-dembele-aguero-starts-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/a-ray-of-hope-for-fc-barcelonas-attack-as-dembele-aguero-starts-training\/","title":{"rendered":"A ray of hope for FC Barcelona\u2019s attack as Dembele & Aguero starts training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona, one of the biggest clubs in the history of sports has been on a downfall since 2019 and suffered a final blow after Messi left Barca for PSG. Ousmane Dembele, a young bright talented Barca forward who was bought for 105 million euros in 2017, and since then he has been injured for most of the years, the young French forward never really got to showcase his ability due to injuries. He made his first appearance in team training after undergoing surgery on his right knee in the year 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Another big signing by Barca, Argentinian star Aguero who agreed to take a pay cut to join the team after playing 10 years in Manchester City but still hasn\u2019t made his debut as he strained his calf in pre-season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc4bWelcome back <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dembouz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Dembouz<\/a> & <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aguerosergiokun?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@aguerosergiokun<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Both started training for part of the session with the rest of the squad today \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JHbiwmzSkJ\">pic.twitter.com\/JHbiwmzSkJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1447586697299042309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even though both players are seen practicing, they are yet to be cleared by the medical team to play in a full 90-minute match. Barca will be playing against Valencia on 18th October at 12:30 AM IST and has only won 1 of their last 6 games in all competition.<\/p>\n<p>The young squad of Barca consisting of another bright talent from Spain, Gavi, is also with the team. The squad re-build looks to be in good hands, with the veteran presence of Gerard Pique and Aguero and young talented players like Gavi, Dembele will give a boost to the franchise and their fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dembele and Aguero return to practice after their injury and will be cleared to play matches in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":33429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2286,2128,1825,487,500,537,668,773,603,2750],"class_list":["post-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-dembele","tag-lional-messi","tag-lionel-messi","tag-pique","tag-ronald-koeman","tag-sergio-aguero","tag-spain","tag-training","tag-valencia"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}