{"id":5114,"date":"2017-07-07T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2017-07-07T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:38:12","slug":"lukas-podolski-targets-afc-champions-league-berth-vissel-kobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/07\/lukas-podolski-targets-afc-champions-league-berth-vissel-kobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukas Podolski targets AFC Champions League berth with Vissel Kobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany striker Lukas Podolski is targeting an AFC Champions League berth after joining <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/06\/keisuke-honda-training-american-team-orange-county-sc\/\">Japanese<\/a> side Vissel Kobe from Galatasaray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel any pressure because I have had pressure since I started playing football,&#8221; said Podolski, as quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-soccer-japan-podolski-idUKKBN19R0PT?rpc=401&amp;\">Reuters<\/a> at a news conference in Kobe on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not a problem, it is a big challenge for me. I don&#8217;t play in Europe, I play now in the J.League and Asia, so it is a big move, of course, but I have a target,\u201d the 2014 World Cup winner added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first target is to fight for the first three places (in the J.League) to qualify for the Champions League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Podolski has joined J1-League from Turkish powerhouse Galatasaray in March on a deal estimated to be worth $5.3 million. He is the highest-profile J-League import since Uruguay striker Diego Forlan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany striker Lukas Podolski is targeting an AFC Champions League berth after joining Japanese side Vissel Kobe from Galatasaray. &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel any pressure because I have had pressure since I started playing football,&#8221; said Podolski, as quoted by Reuters at a news conference in Kobe on Thursday. &#8220;It is not a problem, it is a big challenge for me. I don&#8217;t play in Europe, I play now in the J.League and Asia, so it is a big move, of course, but I have a target,\u201d the 2014 World Cup winner added. &#8220;The first target is to fight for the first three places (in the J.League) to qualify for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/07\/lukas-podolski-targets-afc-champions-league-berth-vissel-kobe\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Lukas Podolski targets AFC Champions League berth with Vissel Kobe&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[130,290,289],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-afc-champions-league","tag-lukas-podolski","tag-vissel-kobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","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=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}