{"id":41178,"date":"2010-08-14T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/14\/chelsea-signs-brazilian-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2010-08-14T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:19:00","slug":"chelsea-signs-brazilian-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/14\/chelsea-signs-brazilian-midfielder.html","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Signs Brazilian Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\">English Premier League champions Chelsea on Friday completed the signing of Brazil midfielder Ramires from Benfica for a fee thought to be around 17 million pounds (20 million euros), AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\">The 23-year-old has joined the Stamford Bridge side on a four-year contract having received a work permit and passed a medical.<\/p>\n<p>The former Cruzeiro player will miss Saturday&#8217;s opening Premier League game against West Brom.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Arian AMU'; font-size: 10.5pt\">&#8220;Every player in the world would love to play for Chelsea and it&#8217;s a great opportunity that was given to me, I will give my best to repay this chance, and I am very happy,&#8221; Ramires told www.chelseafc.com.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League champions Chelsea on Friday completed the signing of Brazil midfielder Ramires from&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[10546,10545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}