Former coach Pim Verbeek has warned Australia to expect a tough game when they travel to Honduras for the first leg of their World Cup qualifiers on 10 November.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Australians will find it very different to many of the places they\u2019ve been,\u201d Verbeek, who is currently coaching Oman\u2019s national team, told Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201dThe closest comparison is to Uruguay when they went there in 2005, but it\u2019s worse.<\/p>\n \u201dIt\u2019s a long journey too, they\u2019ll probably have to fly to Miami and then down to Honduras. Then they have to go back, so it\u2019s going to be a tough challenge with no real time for preparation because the distances are so big.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be hard.\u201d<\/p>\n The Socceroos enter the intercontinental World Cup playoff after narrowly winning Syria in an Asian playoff last week.<\/p>\n The second leg will be played at Sydney\u2019s Olympic Stadium on 15 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former coach Pim Verbeek has warned Australia to expect a tough game when they travel to Honduras for the first leg of their World Cup qualifiers on 10 November. \u201cThe Australians will find it very different to many of the places they\u2019ve been,\u201d Verbeek, who is currently coaching Oman\u2019s national team, told Reuters. \u201dThe closest comparison is to Uruguay when they went there in 2005, but it\u2019s worse. \u201dIt\u2019s a long journey too, they\u2019ll probably have to fly to Miami and then down to Honduras. Then they have to go back, so it\u2019s going to be a tough challenge with no real time for preparation because the distances are so … Continue reading “Former coach Pim Verbeek warns Australia ahead of Honduras play-off”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[110,467,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075"}],"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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}