{"id":474727,"date":"2024-01-01T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474727"},"modified":"2024-01-01T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T20:41:06","slug":"de-zerbi-shocked-at-mitomas-asian-cup-call-up","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/de-zerbi-shocked-at-mitomas-asian-cup-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"De Zerbi shocked at Mitoma\u2019s Asian Cup call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton head coach Roberto de Zerbi admits he is &#8220;surprised&#8221; by injured attacker Kaoru Mitoma&#8217;s call-up by Japan for the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roberto de Zerbi says he is &#8220;surprised&#8221; by Kaoru Mitoma&#8217;s call-up by Japan for the Asian Cup.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FPNWLUalJs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FPNWLUalJs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1741892726977605934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese sustained an ankle problem during his team\u2019s 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace on December 21<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The Seagulls boss announced that Kaoru was expected to be sidelined for up to a month and a half, but despite that, the winger was featured in Japan&#8217;s final squad for the competition today.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian Cup will be played in Qatar from January 12<sup>th<\/sup> to February 10<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really shocked because team doctors revealed to me Mitoma needs 4, 7 weeks for his problem,&#8221; shared De Zerbi, speaking before tomorrow\u2019s Premier League match vs. West Ham United.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, it&#8217;s difficult to imagine that he could heal and will be able to play at the tournament in Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberto added that he is a fan of Mitoma, and if they can play for their national team, he is very happy and proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton head coach Roberto de Zerbi admits he is &#8220;surprised&#8221; by injured attacker Kaoru Mitoma&#8217;s call-up by Japan for the Asian Cup. Roberto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18821,22494,17317,21542],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18822,22495,17886,21543],"acf":{"announce":"The Brighton manager was surprised by the injured winger's Japan call-up for the tournament.","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\/474727"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474730,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474727\/revisions\/474730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474727"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474727"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}