{"id":160193,"date":"2025-08-20T04:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160193\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:32:22","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-missed-barcelona-training-for-the-best-of-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160193\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenkie de Jong missed Barcelona training for the best of reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Barcelona returned to work on Tuesday to begin preparations for their second match of the La Liga season against Levante this weekend, and there was one notable player missing as Frenkie de Jong did not report to the session. But his absence was for a very good reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dutchman did not train with his teammates in order to go to a hospital and attend the birth of his second child, according to multiple reports from Catalan media. De Jong and his partner, Mikky Kiemeney, welcomed their first baby two years ago, and have now added another member to the family along with little Miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Frenkie is expected to return to training normally on Wednesday, and he\u2019ll certainly do it with a really big smile on his face. Here\u2019s to a happy and healthy birth for Mikky, and congratulations to the De Jong family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona returned to work on Tuesday to begin preparations for their second match of the La Liga season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2618,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-160193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-team-news","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115059224957325929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}