{"id":32104,"date":"2024-09-07T02:41:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T23:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=32104"},"modified":"2024-09-07T02:41:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T23:41:52","slug":"chinas-coach-is-saddened-after-the-toughest-night-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/chinas-coach-is-saddened-after-the-toughest-night-of-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s coach is saddened after \u2018the toughest night of his career\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Branko Ivankovi\u0107, China\u2019s coach, expressed regret after what he described as the toughest night of his career, following his team\u2019s 7-0 thrashing by Japan in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The humiliating defeat in Saitama on Thursday, against Asia\u2019s top-ranked team, was China\u2019s worst loss in World Cup qualifying, falling just one goal short of their record 8-0 defeat to Brazil in 2012.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ivankovi\u0107 had previously led Oman to a surprising 1-0 victory over Japan in the final qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but he had no hope of repeating the feat this time, as Japan, ranked 24th globally, delivered a stunning performance at the Saitama Stadium.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ivankovi\u0107 told the Chinese state news agency Xinhua: \u201cJapan is not only one of the strongest teams in Asia but also a world-class team. We focused particularly on defense during our preparations for the match, but we conceded many goals. Some of these goals should not have gone in. It was a tough match. As a coach, it was the toughest night of my career.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Branko Ivankovi\u0107, China\u2019s coach, expressed regret after what he described as the toughest night of his career, following his team\u2019s 7-0 thrashing by Japan in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. The humiliating defeat in Saitama on Thursday, against Asia\u2019s top-ranked team, was China\u2019s worst loss in World Cup qualifying, falling just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32105,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32104\/revisions\/32105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}