{"id":73837,"date":"2018-12-29T07:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T06:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73837"},"modified":"2018-12-29T07:48:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T06:48:44","slug":"epl-joe-cole-returns-to-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73837","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Joe Cole returns to Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPL-Joe-Cole-returns-to-Chelsea.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Joe Cole will return to Chelsea in 2019 as a technical academy coach, working with various age-grade teams in the club\u2019s youth set-up.<\/p>\n<p>Cole came through the ranks at West Ham and made his debut aged 17, before moving to Stamford Bridge five years later in 2003, in a deal reported to be worth \u00a36.6million.<\/p>\n<p>He spent seven seasons with the Blues, where he won the Premier League on three occasions and also claimed FA Cup and EFL Cup winners\u2019 medals.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old will carry out his new role alongside studying for his coaching badges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking to the future, I want to stay involved in the game and I feel I can offer a lot as a coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo lend my experience to help other young footballers achieve their dreams, just like I did, is a big passion of mine,\u201d he told the club\u2019s website.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Cole will return to Chelsea in 2019 as a technical academy coach, working with various age-grade teams in the club\u2019s youth set-up. Cole came through the ranks at West Ham and made his debut aged 17, before moving to Stamford Bridge five years later in 2003, in a deal reported to be worth \u00a36.6million. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1397],"class_list":["post-73837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}