{"id":4960,"date":"2011-03-28T15:34:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:34:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:34:45","slug":"ochocinco-asked-to-play-in-kansas-city%e2%80%99s-reserve-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"Ochocinco Asked To Play In Kansas City\u2019s Reserve Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Wide receiver <strong>Chad Ochocinco<\/strong> has caught a break.<\/p>\n<p>His budding soccer career, which even he admits is a long shot, has been extended to include a practice game with a Major League Soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting Kansas City has asked the six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver to play in their reserve team\u2019s game on Monday against a local squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ochocinco<\/strong>, who says he actually preferred soccer until he was persuaded to focus entirely on football after the 10th grade, began a four-day trial with the MLS team on Wednesday in part as a way to stay fit and keep busy during the NFL lockout. The Cincinnati Bengals star admitted he was rusty after so many years away from the game.<\/p>\n<p>He seemed nervous and a bit out of shape on his first day but a Sporting KC spokesman said he appeared much more comfortable during his second practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Wide receiver Chad Ochocinco has caught a break. His budding soccer career, which even he admits is a long shot, has been extended to include a practice game with a Major League Soccer team. Sporting Kansas City has asked the six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver to play in their reserve team\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}