has since spoken<\/a> of the gruelling physical and mental recovery that followed.<\/p>\nHe did not regain fitness in time to return to the pitch for West Ham last season and was released at the end of his contract in June.<\/p>\n
He did, however, return to action with Jamaica in the summer and remained with West Ham after his contract expired, allowing him to continue his recovery and gain much-needed game time with the club’s Under-21 side.<\/p>\n
When asked if Antonio has shown signs of the trauma he has endured in the past year, Cifuentes said: “Not at all.<\/p>\n
“We are aware that he has been training before with another club and he is looking good in that sense,” the Spaniard continued.<\/p>\n
“Match fitness is what will take some time to learn because he has been away for a long period. <\/p>\n
“It’s never easy, and it doesn’t matter how hard you train or how hard you are involved, because the level of the game is different.”<\/p>\n
Antonio spent a decade with West Ham and left them as their all-time leading Premier League scorer with 68 goals from 268 games.<\/p>\n
The forward, whose career started at non-league level with Tooting & Mitcham United, has scored more than 130 goals across more than 550 appearances since signing his first professional deal with Reading as an 18-year-old.<\/p>\n
He went on to have spells at Southampton, Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest before moving to West Ham in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonio was in the final month… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}