{"id":11131,"date":"2018-02-23T23:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=11131"},"modified":"2018-02-23T23:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:10:19","slug":"former-coach-ange-postecoglou-no-regret-leaving-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/23\/former-coach-ange-postecoglou-no-regret-leaving-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Former coach Ange Postecoglou has &#8220;no regret&#8221; about leaving Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian coach\u00a0Ange Postecoglou has\u00a0\u201cno regrets\u201d about swapping World Cup chance with the Socceroos to looking for challenge in Japan with\u00a0Yokohama F. Marinos<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo regrets,&#8221; Postecoglou talked about his <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/23\/ange-postecoglou-resigns-australia-coach\/\">shocking decision\u00a0to resign<\/a> as the head coach of Australia national team in November, one week after securing them a place at Russia 2018<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a fantastic four years. It was obviously a tough decision but it was something that I\u2019d thought about for a very long time,&#8221;\u00a0he added, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/sports\/2018\/02\/21\/soccer\/j-league\/no-regrets-ange-postecoglou-swaps-world-cup-j-league-challenge-marinos\/#.Wo_uqKiuzIU\">The Japan Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the World Cup is on there will be a little part of me that has a little bit of angst towards not being there, but I\u2019m certainly hoping that they will do well there and I\u2019ve got a real belief that they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou has aimed to guide Yokohama to their first J-League title since 2004, starting with the opening game against\u00a0Cerezo Osaka this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working hard at the moment on the physical condition of the players and also the tempo which we want to play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be an aggressive, attacking team. To do that you\u2019ve got to be fit, so we\u2019ve concentrated on that. That\u2019s the foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian coach\u00a0Ange Postecoglou has\u00a0\u201cno regrets\u201d about swapping World Cup chance with the Socceroos to looking for challenge in Japan with\u00a0Yokohama F. Marinos \u201cNo regrets,&#8221; Postecoglou talked about his shocking decision\u00a0to resign as the head coach of Australia national team in November, one week after securing them a place at Russia 2018 &#8220;I had a fantastic four years. It was obviously a tough decision but it was something that I\u2019d thought about for a very long time,&#8221;\u00a0he added, as quoted by The Japan Times. &#8220;When the World Cup is on there will be a little part of me that has a little bit of angst towards not being there, but I\u2019m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/23\/former-coach-ange-postecoglou-no-regret-leaving-australia\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Former coach Ange Postecoglou has &#8220;no regret&#8221; about leaving Australia&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[552,110,127,175],"class_list":["post-11131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-ange-postecoglou","tag-australia","tag-j-league","tag-yokohama-f-marinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}