{"id":121884,"date":"2025-09-05T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121884\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:54:08","slug":"greece-kicks-off-world-cup-qualifiers-against-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121884\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece kicks off World Cup qualifiers against Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4461562-1.jpg\" alt=\"Greece kicks off World Cup qualifiers against Belarus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4461562-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[InTime News]<\/p>\n<p>Greece begins its World Cup qualifying campaign on Friday night, hosting Belarus at Athens\u2019 Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Drawn into Group C of the European qualifiers, the Greek men\u2019s national soccer side will also face Denmark and Scotland as it seeks a place at next summer\u2019s World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ivan Jovanovic leads a squad that blends experience with youthful energy and talent, and he is credited with fostering strong team spirit, with every player ready to step up when needed.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the four-team group will secure direct qualification to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Greece has appeared at the World Cup three times: in the US in 1994, South Africa in 2010, and Brazil in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[InTime News] Greece begins its World Cup qualifying campaign on Friday night, hosting Belarus at Athens\u2019 Georgios Karaiskakis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,13198,85],"class_list":["post-121884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}