{"id":7592,"date":"2017-10-05T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2017-10-05T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:02:57","slug":"syria-coach-looks-historical-victory-australia-world-cup-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/05\/syria-coach-looks-historical-victory-australia-world-cup-play-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria coach looks for historical victory over Australia in World Cup play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syria head coach Ayman al-Hakim has urged his side to play with their greatest efforts ahead of the Asian World Cup play-off against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reaching the Asian play-off is almost a miracle, no one expected us to reach this stage given the tough circumstances we face in our country,&#8221; al-Hakim told AFP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/sports\/football\/2017\/10\/287233\/theres-no-impossible-war-torn-syria-eye-world-cup\">as quoted by the New Straits Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shows the will that the Syrians have and their ability to achieve the impossible. We hope to fulfill the dream of reaching the World Cup. It&#8217;s the dream of every Syrian, every member of our team, whether the players, coaches, officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The winners go into a two-legged clash with the fourth-placed team from the CONCACAF federation, currently the United States.<\/p>\n<p>If Syria can overcome both playoffs, they will make their own history by reaching the World Cup finals for the first time.<\/p>\n                    <div class=\"row\">\n                        <div class=\"col-12 poll_container\">\n                            <div id=\"tribe-poll-wrap\" data-index=\"76405b21ca002f86e\"\n                                 data-id=\"7640\"\n                                 class=\"poll_id_7640\">\n                                <div class=\"poll-tribe\">\n                                                                            <div class=\"poll_type regular\">\n                                                <h3>Which AFC WCQ Playoff team will reach the 2018 FIFA World Cup?<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"options-wraper-container\">\n                    <div class=\"blur-no-vote\">\n                <span>Vote to see the results<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"options-wraper clearfix\">\n                                <div class=\"optionname\">\n                    <label class=\"\">\n                                                    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"vote_value\"\n                                   value=\"0\">\n                            Australia                    <\/label>\n                <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"poll-progress \">\n                                        <div class=\"bar\" data-width=\"31\"><\/div>\n                    <span class=\"details\">\n                    <b class=\"percentage\">31%<\/b> -\n                    <b class=\"count\">1                        vote                    <\/b>\n                <\/span>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"options-wraper clearfix\">\n                                <div class=\"optionname\">\n                    <label class=\"\">\n                                                    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"vote_value\"\n                                   value=\"1\">\n                            Syria                    <\/label>\n                <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"poll-progress \">\n                                        <div class=\"bar\" data-width=\"30\"><\/div>\n                    <span class=\"details\">\n                    <b class=\"percentage\">30%<\/b> -\n                    <b class=\"count\">5                        votes                    <\/b>\n                <\/span>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"options-wraper clearfix\">\n                                <div class=\"optionname\">\n                    <label class=\"\">\n                                                    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"vote_value\"\n                                   value=\"2\">\n                            Neither                    <\/label>\n                <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"poll-progress \">\n                                        <div class=\"bar\" data-width=\"31\"><\/div>\n                    <span class=\"details\">\n                    <b class=\"percentage\">31%<\/b> -\n                    <b class=\"count\">0                        votes                    <\/b>\n                <\/span>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <div class=\"align-center\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"register_vote btn common small green\">Vote!<\/button>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"error\"><\/p>\n                                            <\/div>\n                                                                        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria head coach Ayman al-Hakim has urged his side to play with their greatest efforts ahead of the Asian World Cup play-off against Australia. &#8220;Reaching the Asian play-off is almost a miracle, no one expected us to reach this stage given the tough circumstances we face in our country,&#8221; al-Hakim told AFP, as quoted by the New Straits Times. &#8220;It shows the will that the Syrians have and their ability to achieve the impossible. We hope to fulfill the dream of reaching the World Cup. It&#8217;s the dream of every Syrian, every member of our team, whether the players, coaches, officials.&#8221; The winners go into a two-legged clash with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/05\/syria-coach-looks-historical-victory-australia-world-cup-play-off\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Syria coach looks for historical victory over Australia in World Cup play-off&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[856],"tags":[110,581,332],"class_list":["post-7592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-asia","tag-australia","tag-syria","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","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=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}