{"id":2688,"date":"2014-06-11T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:27:38","slug":"two-year-deal-signed-by-joe-cole-for-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/two-year-deal-signed-by-joe-cole-for-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year deal signed by Joe Cole for Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former England midfielder Joe Cole has joined Aston Villa on a free transfer, the club have announced. The 32-year-old was a free agent after being released by West Ham at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Villa have released a picture, via Twitter, of Cole wearing a club tracksuit top at the club\u2019s Bodymoor Heath training complex. The accompanying text confirmed Cole had \u201ccompleted a medical this morning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cole, who has also played for Chelsea, Liverpool and Lille in his career, has won 56 caps for England. He moves to Villa Park having spent the past season and a-half back at his first club, West Ham United, where he came through the youth ranks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2014\/jun\/10\/joe-cole-to-join-aston-villa-west-ham\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Football News &#8211; Aston Villa &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/football\/\" title=\"Football\">Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former England midfielder Joe Cole has joined Aston Villa on a free transfer, the club have announced. The 32-year-old was a free agent after being released by West Ham at the end of last season. Villa have released a picture, via Twitter, of Cole wearing a club tracksuit top at the club\u2019s Bodymoor Heath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,85],"tags":[941,417,111,942,945,943,944,947,179,30,114,120,80,188,940,948,946,949],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-premier-league","tag-aston-villa","tag-chelsea","tag-england","tag-england-midfielder-joe-cole","tag-free-transfer","tag-joe-cole","tag-joe-cole-joined-aston-villa","tag-lille","tag-liverpool","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-villa","tag-villa-park","tag-west-ham","tag-west-ham-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}