{"id":9371,"date":"2017-12-07T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:18:26","slug":"sven-goran-eriksson-australia-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/12\/07\/sven-goran-eriksson-australia-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sven-Goran Eriksson interested in Australia national team coaching role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sven-Goran Eriksson has confirmed he is interested in taking the Socceroos to the 2018 World Cup in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/football\/exengland-coach-svengoran-eriksson-puts-hand-up-for-socceroos-job\/news-story\/d3276cf68a5c72467863f9890016b7e4\">exclusive interview with the Herald Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, of course, I\u2019m interested. It\u2019s a big job, a big football country, you\u2019re playing in the World Cup \u2014 again. You more or less always play in the World Cup,\u2019\u2019 Eriksson said.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the former England coach believed\u00a0that the Socceroos could compete with France, Peru, and Denmark to progress to the World Cup knock-out stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have watched some Australian games and I watched the games against Honduras, the last games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance are big favorites in the group, but I think it will be a fight for second place between Australia, Peru, and Denmark. I think the chances for Australia (to advance) are good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole world would say France is favorite to win that group, but second I think it\u2019s very tight. Any team there can beat anyone, it\u2019s very open. Why not Australia?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Eriksson takes charge of the Socceroos, it will be his fourth appearance at the\u00a0World Cup finals. He coached England to quarter-finals\u00a0in 2002 and 2006 before failing to qualify for the group stage with Ivory Coast in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In June, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/10\/shenzhen-fc-sven-goran-eriksson-love-manage-liverpool\/\">sacked by second-tier team Shenzhen FC<\/a> after just six months in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sven-Goran Eriksson has confirmed he is interested in taking the Socceroos to the 2018 World Cup in an exclusive interview with the Herald Sun. \u201cYes, of course, I\u2019m interested. It\u2019s a big job, a big football country, you\u2019re playing in the World Cup \u2014 again. You more or less always play in the World Cup,\u2019\u2019 Eriksson said. On the other hand, the former England coach believed\u00a0that the Socceroos could compete with France, Peru, and Denmark to progress to the World Cup knock-out stage. \u201cI have watched some Australian games and I watched the games against Honduras, the last games. \u201cFrance are big favorites in the group, but I think it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/12\/07\/sven-goran-eriksson-australia-world-cup\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Sven-Goran Eriksson interested in Australia national team coaching role&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[637,110,467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371"}],"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=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}