{"id":44181,"date":"2017-02-20T22:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T03:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44181"},"modified":"2017-02-20T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T04:00:37","slug":"angoua-hamstring-expected-to-debut-in-ddc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44181","title":{"rendered":"Angoua (Hamstring) Set to Debut in DDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44182\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44182\" data-attachment-id=\"44182\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=44182\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Angoua-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" data-orig-size=\"600,416\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Angoua-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: New England Revolution \/ Ron Bower&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Angoua-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Angoua-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44182\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Angoua-1.png?resize=600%2C416\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Angoua-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Angoua-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: New England Revolution \/ Ron Bower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the first time since he was acquired in January, Revolution center back Benjamin Angoua participated in full training with his new club on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Angoua, who joined the club via loan from French Ligue 1 side EA Guingamp for the 2017 MLS season with the option to transfer permanently following the season, was hindered by a hamstring injury suffered prior to his acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was good to have him in the group,\u201d Revolution coach Jay Heaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsoccer.net\/post\/2017\/02\/20\/back-full-health-angoua-likely-debut-ddc-it-s-good-get-him-mix\">told <em>revolutionsoccer.net<\/em> on Monday<\/a>. \u201cThis was the first real training session that he was able to go full. We\u2019ve got some work to do, but it was good to get him in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the club&#8217;s official website, the 30-year-old center back partnered with fellow new signing Antonio Delamea\u00a0for &#8220;large portions&#8221;\u00a0of Monday&#8217;s training session. Angoua is expected to see action before the Revolution close out their preseason schedule on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to build the partnerships and the relationships,\u201d Heaps said. \u201cIt\u2019s defending, it\u2019s linking into the attack and it\u2019s making sure that we\u2019re comfortable all the way across the back four.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Revs CB Benjamin Angoua participated in full training on Monday as he recovers from a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1575,287,891,115,235,888,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Angoua-1.png?fit=600%2C416","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44186,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44181\/revisions\/44186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}