{"id":440103,"date":"2023-07-19T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440103"},"modified":"2023-07-19T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:23:38","slug":"benjamin-mendy-signs-2-year-contract-with-lorient","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/benjamin-mendy-signs-2-year-contract-with-lorient\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Mendy signs 2-year contract with Lorient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 World Cup winner Benjamin Mendy signed a two-year deal with French soccer club Lorient on Wednesday days after the former France international was found not guilty of raping a woman and the attempted rape of another.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Mendy became a free agent in the end of last month after his Manchester City contract expired. He had not played a professional game since 2021 when his court battle started.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcdd \ud835\uddd7\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\udddf \ud835\uddd7\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd8: FC Lorient have signed Benjamin Mendy on a contract until June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCLorient?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FCLorient<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qu7CG0smg1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qu7CG0smg1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1681592099244847106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter passing the traditional medical, Benjamin Mendy, a 2018 world champion, four-time Premier League winner with Manchester City and Ligue 1 French champion with Monaco among others, has strengthened Lorient\u2019s squad for the new season,\u201d Lorient said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 World Cup winner Benjamin Mendy signed a two-year deal with French soccer club Lorient on Wednesday days after the former France international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":440113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20419,20492],"news_category":[141,14235],"gn_keywords":[20420,20493],"acf":{"announce":"The 2018 World Champion will try to revive his career after long court process ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440103"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440103"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}