{"id":8355,"date":"2017-10-31T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2017-10-31T18:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T09:05:56","slug":"saudi-arabia-play-bulgaria-warm-preparation-2018-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/31\/saudi-arabia-play-bulgaria-warm-preparation-2018-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to play Bulgaria in warm-up preparation for 2018 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia will play Bulgaria in a warm-up match in Lisbon, Portugal on 13 November, the Bulgarian Football Union announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The match will follow Saudi Arabia&#8217;s friendly against Portugal in Leiria three days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The friendlies will be the preparation for Saudi Arabia, who directly qualified in September, in next year&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This will be\u00a0the first task for newly-appointed coach of Saudi Arabia,\u00a0Edgardo Bauza.<\/p>\n<p>His predecessor Bert van Marwijk decided to quit last month since his negotiation with\u00a0Saudi Arabian Football Federation broke down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia will play Bulgaria in a warm-up match in Lisbon, Portugal on 13 November, the Bulgarian Football Union announced on Monday. The match will follow Saudi Arabia&#8217;s friendly against Portugal in Leiria three days earlier. The friendlies will be the preparation for Saudi Arabia, who directly qualified in September, in next year&#8217;s World Cup. This will be\u00a0the first task for newly-appointed coach of Saudi Arabia,\u00a0Edgardo Bauza. His predecessor Bert van Marwijk decided to quit last month since his negotiation with\u00a0Saudi Arabian Football Federation broke down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[735,311,332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355"}],"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=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}