{"id":749,"date":"2021-01-13T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2021-01-14T03:55:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T03:55:02","slug":"algerian-star-forward-joins-kadewere-at-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"ALGERIAN STAR FORWARD JOINS KADEWERE AT LYON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Algeria&#8217;s Desert Foxes star forward Islam Slimani has joined Tinotenda Kadewere at  French Ligue1 giants Lyon from English Premier League side Leicester City on a 18 month deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32-year-old Slimani joined in to replace Moussa Dembele who completed a shock loan move to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slimani has been&nbsp;struggling to nail a first team position at Leicester City ever since he arrived  in 2016 from Sporting Lisbon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Algerian forward has been loaned away from Leicester City three times before, after brief stints at&nbsp;Newcastle United , Fenerbahce and Monaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made his international debut in 2012 and represented&nbsp;Algeria at Africa&nbsp;Cup of Nations in&nbsp;2013 ,&nbsp;2015 and&nbsp;2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also part of the Desert Foxes side that won the&nbsp;2019 Africa Cup of Nations trophy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slimani has 69 international\u00a0caps\u00a0for Algeria and has scored 29 goals, making him the country &#8216;s second highest all-time goalscorer after Abdelhafid Tasfaout who has 36 goals in 87 caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He joined another Algerian international at Lyon in veteran defender, Djamel Benlamri. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Desert Foxes star forward Islam Slimani has joined Tinotenda Kadewere at French Ligue1 giants Lyon from English Premier League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,13,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/451280612-485142.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}