{"id":8854,"date":"2017-11-17T22:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:49:58","slug":"ki-sung-yueng-avoid-brazil-spain-germany-world-cup-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/17\/ki-sung-yueng-avoid-brazil-spain-germany-world-cup-group-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ki Sung-Yueng hopes to avoid Brazil, Spain and Germany in World Cup group stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea captain Ki Sung-Yueng hopes that his team can avoid world-class opponents like Brazil, Spain, and Germany in the World Cup group stage when the draw is made in Moscow on 1 December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does not matter which team we will meet in World Cup,&#8221; said Ki, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nocutnews.co.kr\/news\/4877261\">as quoted by No Cut News<\/a>. &#8220;Every team at the World Cup is stronger than us. We need to prepare ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be hard for us if we have to face world-class rivals like Brazil, Spain, and Germany. But we cannot avoid them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea made their warm-up preparation for next year&#8217;s World Cup with a <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/11\/colombian-forward-apologises-racist-gerture-south-korea\/\">2-1 defeat to\u00a013th-ranked Colombia<\/a>\u00a0in Suwon\u00a0and then drew 1-1 with 27th-ranked Serbia in Ulsan four days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea captain Ki Sung-Yueng hopes that his team can avoid world-class opponents like Brazil, Spain, and Germany in the World Cup group stage when the draw is made in Moscow on 1 December. &#8220;It does not matter which team we will meet in World Cup,&#8221; said Ki, as quoted by No Cut News. &#8220;Every team at the World Cup is stronger than us. We need to prepare ourselves.&#8221; &#8220;It will be hard for us if we have to face world-class rivals like Brazil, Spain, and Germany. But we cannot avoid them,&#8221; he added. South Korea made their warm-up preparation for next year&#8217;s World Cup with a 2-1 defeat to\u00a013th-ranked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/17\/ki-sung-yueng-avoid-brazil-spain-germany-world-cup-group-stage\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Ki Sung-Yueng hopes to avoid Brazil, Spain and Germany in World Cup group stage&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[867],"tags":[637,913,70],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korea","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-ki-sung-yueng","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","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=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}