{"id":14021,"date":"2018-06-24T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=14021"},"modified":"2018-06-25T03:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:12:26","slug":"australia-winger-robbie-kruse-faces-death-threats-over-performance-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/24\/australia-winger-robbie-kruse-faces-death-threats-over-performance-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia winger Robbie Kruse faces death threats over performance at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia winger Robbie Kruse and his family have received threats of violence among other abuse due to his unsatisfactory performance in the last two games in <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/22\/australia-keep-their-hope-alive-following-1-1-draw-to-denmark\/\">World Cup Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kruse\u2019s parents have shut down their Facebook account, while\u00a0Kruse\u2019s Socceroos teammates came out to defence the 29-year-old forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor his own people, for Australians, to be slagging off \u2014 it\u2019s not OK,\u201d teammate Mathew Leckie told reporters on Saturday in Kazan, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/football\/socceroos\/socceroos-teammates-come-to-defence-of-robbie-kruse\/news-story\/9c0b2fef96cfd69ffbdff942e90be1c8\">News.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never good for any player to cop that sort of stuff so, hopefully, it tones down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leckie said Kruse remained in good spirits but had been stunned by the waves of criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re representing Australia. And the people back home that are saying bad things, it\u2019s understandable that they might like (some) players more than other players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it doesn\u2019t give anyone the right to abuse a player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kruse has lost his pace\u00a0due to a series of injuries over his career. However, coach Bert van Mawijk obviously put his faith into Kruse and started him in both games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia winger Robbie Kruse and his family have received threats of violence among other abuse due to his unsatisfactory performance in the last two games in World Cup Russia. Kruse\u2019s parents have shut down their Facebook account, while\u00a0Kruse\u2019s Socceroos teammates came out to defence the 29-year-old forward. \u201cFor his own people, for Australians, to be slagging off \u2014 it\u2019s not OK,\u201d teammate Mathew Leckie told reporters on Saturday in Kazan, as quoted by News.com.au. \u201cIt\u2019s never good for any player to cop that sort of stuff so, hopefully, it tones down.\u201d Leckie said Kruse remained in good spirits but had been stunned by the waves of criticism. \u201cWe\u2019re representing Australia. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/24\/australia-winger-robbie-kruse-faces-death-threats-over-performance-at-world-cup\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Australia winger Robbie Kruse faces death threats over performance at World Cup&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":14022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[637,110,1586],"class_list":["post-14021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-australia","tag-robbie-kruse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021","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=14021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}