{"id":887,"date":"2025-08-22T17:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:35:55","slug":"lewandowski-returns-to-training-on-37th-birthday-as-barcelona-prepare-for-levante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/lewandowski-returns-to-training-on-37th-birthday-as-barcelona-prepare-for-levante\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewandowski returns to training on 37th birthday as Barcelona prepare for Levante"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-35.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-35-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-35-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Lewandowski provided the headline news at Barcelona training on Thursday, marking his 37th birthday by rejoining full sessions with the squad at the Joan Gamper training complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Polish striker had been sidelined with discomfort in the biceps femoris of his left leg, forcing him to miss last weekend&#8217;s 3-0 win away at Mallorca. His return suggests he is in the final stages of recovery and could soon be available for selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewandowski was greeted in customary fashion by his teammates, who formed a celebratory tunnel for the veteran forward before the session began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The morning also offered coach Hansi Flick the rare boost of having his entire squad available, just two days before Saturday&#8217;s trip to newly-promoted Levante at the Ciutat de Valencia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona will hold their final training session on Friday, after which Flick is scheduled to address the media at midday, offering further clarity on Lewandowski&#8217;s readiness ahead of the second matchday of La Liga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewandowski provided the headline news at Barcelona training on Thursday, marking his 37th birthday by rejoining full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}