{"id":101,"date":"2008-03-06T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2010\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/interview-with-danny-jordaan"},"modified":"2008-03-06T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T10:54:39","slug":"interview-with-danny-jordaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/interview-with-danny-jordaan\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Danny Jordaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2008\/03\/05\/south_africa_foresees_successf.html\">interview with Danny Jordaan<\/a>, CEO of the local organising committee for the 2010 World Cup in the Guardian yesterday, wherein he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An African team must get to the final of the World Cup at least. African teams have never got to a semi-final before. All African teams must at least reach the second round &#8211; all six of them, and we should have at least two in the last four<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blimey, that&#8217;s ambitious &#8212; but hey, wouldn&#8217;t that also be great?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2008\/03\/05\/south_africa_foresees_successf.html\">interview with Danny Jordaan<\/a>, CEO of the local organising committee for the 2010 World Cup in the Guardian yesterday, wherein he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An African team must get to the final of the World Cup at least. African teams have never got to a semi-final before. All African teams must at least reach the second round &#8211; all six of them, and we should have at least two in the last four<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blimey, that&#8217;s ambitious &#8212; but hey, wouldn&#8217;t that also be great?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ball"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}