{"id":1445,"date":"2017-02-23T18:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T09:31:10","slug":"australia-to-play-brazil-in-melbourne-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/02\/23\/australia-to-play-brazil-in-melbourne-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to play Brazil in Melbourne friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will play against Brazil at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 13 as their preparation ahead of the FIFA Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Socceroos will face the five-time World Cup champions in a friendly game, four days after Brazil take on Argentina at the same stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent meeting between the two sides resulted in a 6-0 friendly victory for Brazil in September 2013, which contributed to former coach Holger Osieck&#8217;s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Under Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s guidance, Australia are currently third out of six in their group in the third round of Asia&#8217;s 2018 World Cup qualifiers, having won two and drawn three of their five games played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will play against Brazil at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 13 as their preparation ahead of the FIFA Confederations Cup. The Socceroos will face the five-time World Cup champions in a friendly game, four days after Brazil take on Argentina at the same stadium. The most recent meeting between the two sides resulted in a 6-0 friendly victory for Brazil in September 2013, which contributed to former coach Holger Osieck&#8217;s dismissal. Under Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s guidance, Australia are currently third out of six in their group in the third round of Asia&#8217;s 2018 World Cup qualifiers, having won two and drawn three of their five games played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[110,157,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"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=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}