{"id":723,"date":"2008-10-30T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2008-10-30T17:48:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:48:28","slug":"the-beautiful-game-and-the-worst-team-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful game and the worst team in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Timor have picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/fourfourtwo.com\/news\/worldcup2010\/19488\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">their first point<\/a> in international soccer with a 2-2 draw against Cambodia, six years after the side first took to the field.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was the first game we didn&#8217;t lose &#8212; we&#8217;re all very proud,&#8221; said long-serving, long-suffering coach Pedro Almeida, a motorcycle mechanic in the country&#8217;s sleepy capital Dili.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not happy with our world ranking [bottom of the FIFA rankings] and we are hoping our players will continue to improve,&#8221; he told Reuters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love these little odd stories. You tend to forget about the smattering of tiny teams in Asia, and it&#8217;s nice that East Timor has something (albeit something very small) to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Timor have picked up their first point in international soccer with a 2-2 draw against Cambodia, six years after the side first took to the field. &#8220;It was the first game we didn&#8217;t lose &#8212; we&#8217;re all very proud,&#8221; said long-serving, long-suffering coach Pedro Almeida, a motorcycle mechanic in the country&#8217;s sleepy capital Dili. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}