{"id":5291,"date":"2017-07-14T21:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5291"},"modified":"2017-07-14T21:52:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:52:48","slug":"shinji-kagawa-pens-new-contract-borussia-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/14\/shinji-kagawa-pens-new-contract-borussia-dortmund\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinji Kagawa pens new contract at Borussia Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese star Shinji Kagawa has signed a contract extension at Borussia Dortmund until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old playmaker, who re-joined Dortmund from Manchester United in 2014, successfully won the German Bundesliga title in 2011 and 2012 during his first spell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very pleased that Shinji will play for us for another three seasons,&#8221; Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc said as the club arrived in Tokyo on Friday for pre-season tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shinji identifies with our club, the city and the fans. He&#8217;s also an important role model for our young team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kagawa has scored 27 goals in 88 appearances for Japan since making his senior international against Ivory Coast in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese star Shinji Kagawa has signed a contract extension at Borussia Dortmund until 2020. The 28-year-old playmaker, who re-joined Dortmund from Manchester United in 2014, successfully won the German Bundesliga title in 2011 and 2012 during his first spell. &#8220;We&#8217;re very pleased that Shinji will play for us for another three seasons,&#8221; Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc said as the club arrived in Tokyo on Friday for pre-season tour. &#8220;Shinji identifies with our club, the city and the fans. He&#8217;s also an important role model for our young team.&#8221; Kagawa has scored 27 goals in 88 appearances for Japan since making his senior international against Ivory Coast in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[595,57,225,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}