{"id":6257,"date":"2017-08-20T17:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T08:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2017-08-20T17:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T08:48:47","slug":"australia-coach-chance-captain-jedinak-got-club-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/20\/australia-coach-chance-captain-jedinak-got-club-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia coach: There would be a chance for captain Jedinak if he got through club duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/sport\/offsiders\/content\/2016\/s4721359.htm\">ABC\u2019s Offsiders<\/a>, Australia national head coach Ange Postecoglou said there would be a chance for captain <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/04\/australia-captain-mile-jedinak-miss-world-cup-qualifiers-japan-thailand\/\">Mile Jedinak<\/a> at the World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Thailand if he got through club duty this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s an important part of what we&#8217;ve been building and what people don&#8217;t know is he&#8217;s been playing hurt for probably the last 12 to 18 months for us,&#8221; Postecoglou said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[He] always puts his hand up. If he gets through 90 minutes, he&#8217;ll be there for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jedinak has been in doubt for national duty after being ruled out of the Socceroos\u2019 Confederations Cup campaign in June after undergoing surgery on his groin.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being expected to recover well this week, he was absent in Aston Villa\u2019s squad at the Championship 4-2 win over Norwich City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 33-year-old has been named in initial Socceroos squad for key World Cup qualifiers that will determine Australia\u2019s World Cup destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with ABC\u2019s Offsiders, Australia national head coach Ange Postecoglou said there would be a chance for captain Mile Jedinak at the World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Thailand if he got through club duty this week. &#8220;He&#8217;s an important part of what we&#8217;ve been building and what people don&#8217;t know is he&#8217;s been playing hurt for probably the last 12 to 18 months for us,&#8221; Postecoglou said. &#8220;[He] always puts his hand up. If he gets through 90 minutes, he&#8217;ll be there for sure.&#8221; Jedinak has been in doubt for national duty after being ruled out of the Socceroos\u2019 Confederations Cup campaign in June after undergoing surgery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/20\/australia-coach-chance-captain-jedinak-got-club-duty\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Australia coach: There would be a chance for captain Jedinak if he got through club duty&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[552,110,467,480],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-ange-postecoglou","tag-australia","tag-socceroos","tag-world-cup-qualifiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","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=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}