{"id":2196917,"date":"2024-09-17T06:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2196917\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:45:04","slug":"player-sakai-san-joins-auckland-fc-we-had-a-chance-to-talk-to-him-briefly-while-he-was-practising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2196917\/","title":{"rendered":"Player Sakai-san joins Auckland FC, we had a chance to talk to him briefly while he was practising."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qhpb_IIlpww\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPlayer Sakai-san joins Auckland FC, we had a chance to talk to him briefly while he was practising.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDown Under Football Fever: Soccer Fans in New Zealand and Australia.<br \/>\nJapanese defender Hiroki Sakai joins Auckland FC,<br \/>\nhere is what he had to say: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard Auckland is an amazing city to live in, and I have always wanted to play in the A-League. I had made the choice to pursue new goals and challenges, so when this opportunity came up, it was a natural career progression for me, and the right move for my young family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More Q and A on video clip.  Thanks for watching, come and watch their games. <\/p>\n<p>#hirokisakai   #soccer   #japaneseplayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Player Sakai-san joins Auckland FC, we had a chance to talk to him briefly while he was practising. Down Under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2196918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549184],"tags":[638845,638844,104256,440544,745002,745004,745005,745006,638846,550764,549188,337917,169889,158862,745003,90815,638843,19294,7806,745008,745009,46458,3017,745007],"class_list":{"0":"post-2196917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fifa-world-cup","8":"tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","9":"tag-2026-world-cup","10":"tag-afc","11":"tag-auckland","12":"tag-auckland-fc","13":"tag-auckland-games","14":"tag-australian-league","15":"tag-df","16":"tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","17":"tag-hiroki-sakai","18":"tag-japan-national-football-team","19":"tag-japanese-soccer-player","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-sakai","22":"tag-soccer-games","23":"tag-world-cup","24":"tag-world-cup-2026","25":"tag-19294","26":"tag-7806","27":"tag-745008","28":"tag-745009","29":"tag-46458","30":"tag-3017","31":"tag-745007"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}