{"id":563253,"date":"2020-08-24T05:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T09:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=563253"},"modified":"2020-08-24T05:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T09:19:44","slug":"miralem-pjanic-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/08\/24\/miralem-pjanic-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Miralem Pjani\u0107 Tests Positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/la-liga\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona<\/a> have confirmed that new signing <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/ad6df2d5\/Miralem-Pjanic\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miralem Pjani\u0107<\/a>\u00a0has tested positive for COVID-19. He will now travel to Barcelona in 15 days time and will then be introduced as a Barcelona player.<\/p>\n<p>The Bosnian midfielder was due to meet up with his new teammates shortly to start pre-season training. However, this will now be pushed back two weeks as he self isolates in his home.<\/p>\n<h2>Barcelona Confirm News of Positive Miralem Pjani\u0107 COVID-19 Test<\/h2>\n<h3>Club Statement<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/football\/first-team\/news\/1768243\/miralem-pjanic-tests-positive-for-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A statement by the club read<\/a>: &#8220;Miralem Pjani\u0107\u00a0has tested positive for PCR on Saturday 22 August after feeling a little unwell. The player is in good health and is self-isolating at home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The player will therefore not be travelling to Barcelona for 15 days, when he will be expected to report for duty with the FC Barcelona team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Pjani\u0107 Releases His Own Statement<\/h3>\n<p>After the announcement that he had contracted the virus, Pjani\u0107\u00a0released his own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Miralem_Pjanic\/status\/1297617746147135488\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This read: &#8220;I want to reassure everyone who cares about me, I&#8217;m fine and luckily I&#8217;m asymptomatic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What they teach us these days is that we can&#8217;t take anything for granted. We are calm and respect the rules. See you soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Start Date Pushed Back<\/h3>\n<p>With Pjani\u0107\u00a0now in self isolation, he will not be able to join up for pre-season training for 15 days from the time of being confirmed as positive.<\/p>\n<p>This means he is expected to train for the first time on September 7th. This is just five days before the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/la-liga\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> La Liga<\/a> season is expected to get underway.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to their appearance in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/champions-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champions League<\/a> mini tournament, Barca will not start their new season until the third week of the season.<\/p>\n<p>This will give Pjani\u0107\u00a0enough time to get integrated in the squad before Barcelona start their new season under Ronald Koeman.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"oWNyfCxSRwliwlr7B7J9fg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1227838885\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'oWNyfCxSRwliwlr7B7J9fg',sig:'kqGSHTDjjAXOUhpwyPdhPP2iRrhhYTJrHOVECDL18qk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1227838885',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have confirmed that new signing Miralem Pjani\u0107\u00a0has tested positive for COVID-19. He will now travel to Barcelona in 15 days time and will then be introduced as a Barcelona player. The Bosnian midfielder was due to meet up with his new teammates shortly to start pre-season training. However, this will now be pushed back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3510,"featured_media":563262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1365,6,30],"tags":[4942,464,323,3860,120,136],"class_list":["post-563253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-news","tag-2019-20-la-liga","tag-barcelona","tag-juventus","tag-miralem-pjanic","tag-ronald-koeman","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}