{"id":5732,"date":"2017-08-04T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2017-08-04T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T03:46:57","slug":"australia-captain-mile-jedinak-miss-world-cup-qualifiers-japan-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/04\/australia-captain-mile-jedinak-miss-world-cup-qualifiers-japan-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia captain Mile Jedinak could miss World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Mile Jedinak could be set to miss out on <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/16\/australia-announce-venue-crucial-world-cup-qualifier-thailand\/\">Australia<\/a>&#8216;s last World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was ruled out of the Socceroos&#8217; Confederations Cup campaign in June after undergoing surgery on his groin.<\/p>\n<p>Jedinak will miss Aston Villa&#8217;s Championship season opener with Hull City this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-08-03\/mile-jedinak-set-to-miss-socceroos-world-cup-qualifiers\/8770554\">ABC<\/a>, Aston Villa said in a statement that Jedinak was &#8220;in light training but is still approximately two weeks away from being available&#8221;, while manager Steve Bruce confirmed the midfielder would be out for &#8220;a couple of weeks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Australia currently sits third in its World Cup qualifying group. The Socceroos have to win both clashes against Japan and Thailand to earn a ticket to Russia next summer as one of the top two teams in the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Mile Jedinak could be set to miss out on Australia&#8216;s last World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Thailand. The 33-year-old was ruled out of the Socceroos&#8217; Confederations Cup campaign in June after undergoing surgery on his groin. Jedinak will miss Aston Villa&#8217;s Championship season opener with Hull City this weekend. According to ABC, Aston Villa said in a statement that Jedinak was &#8220;in light training but is still approximately two weeks away from being available&#8221;, while manager Steve Bruce confirmed the midfielder would be out for &#8220;a couple of weeks&#8221;. Australia currently sits third in its World Cup qualifying group. The Socceroos have to win both clashes against Japan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/04\/australia-captain-mile-jedinak-miss-world-cup-qualifiers-japan-thailand\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Australia captain Mile Jedinak could miss World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Thailand&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[110,480],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australia","tag-world-cup-qualifiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","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=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}