{"id":44618,"date":"2017-03-18T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44618"},"modified":"2017-03-18T20:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T00:04:50","slug":"kouassi-gets-starting-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44618","title":{"rendered":"Kouassi Gets Starting Nod at Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44106\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44106\" data-attachment-id=\"44106\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=44106\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kouassi-12.png?fit=601%2C416\" data-orig-size=\"601,416\" 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=\"Kouassi-12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kouassi-12.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kouassi-12.png?fit=601%2C416\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kouassi-12.png?resize=601%2C416\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kouassi-12.png?w=601 601w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kouassi-12.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thirteen months after the Revolution signed him to a designated player contract, midfielder Xavier Kouassi received a starting nod in Saturday&#8217;s match at Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Kouassi, 27, suffered a torn ACL with FC Sion shortly after he signed a future deal with the Revolution. He missed the entire 2016 MLS season as he recovered from the injury before seeing a handful of minutes during the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivory Coast international was available for selection at Colorado, but did not see action. <\/p>\n<p>With Kouassi in the XI, midfielder Kelyn Rowe was dropped from the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revs DP Xavier Kouassi made the XI on Saturday at Dallas some 13 months after he signed with New England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44106,"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":[891,888,892,1445],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kouassi-12.png?fit=601%2C416","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618"}],"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=44618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44622,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618\/revisions\/44622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}