{"id":23340,"date":"2026-06-22T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23340\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:22:12","slug":"jeremy-doku-is-a-father-belgium-man-city-stars-first-child-is-born-as-winger-set-for-quick-flight-back-ahead-of-crucial-world-cup-tie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23340\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Doku is a father! Belgium &#038; Man City star&#8217;s first child is born as winger set for quick flight back ahead of crucial World Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doku&#8217;s availability for the match against Iran had already been in doubt due to a respiratory infection that kept him out of training sessions in Los Angeles. However, team doctor Brahim Hacene explained that the player&#8217;s health did not prevent him from making the cross-Atlantic flight to support his partner during labor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since he had already been receiving the adjusted medication for several days, he was able to fly without medical risk to be with his family during this special moment,&#8221; Hacene confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything went very well, and mother, father, and son are doing excellent. Jeremy will rejoin the group in Seattle tomorrow evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doku&#8217;s availability for the match against Iran had already been in doubt due to a respiratory infection that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,12878,2105,2176,1849],"class_list":["post-23340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-j-doku","tag-manchester-city","tag-new-zealand","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116796099347900771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}