{"id":9901,"date":"2010-10-08T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/10\/08\/ex-spurs-defender-to-coach-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:18:19","slug":"ex-spurs-defender-to-coach-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/08\/ex-spurs-defender-to-coach-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Spurs defender to coach Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Pakistan football chiefs appoint Graham Roberts<\/h3>\n<div><strong>PAKISTAN football chiefs have appointed former Tottenham Hotspur defender Graham Roberts as manager of the national side.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Roberts has signed an initial two-month deal with the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) ahead of their participation at next month\u2019s Asian Games in China, DAWN newspaper reported. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The former England international, who won two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup with Spurs in the 1980s, is expected to fly into Pakistan within the next few weeks. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cHis contract is being financed by sponsors as the PFF does not have that many funds,\u201d PFF secretary Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi was quoted as saying.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIt is great to have a high profile personality working with our players and hopefully it will be good for our team,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Bradford City\u2019s Zesh Rehman who plays for Pakistan welcomed the appointment.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI am looking forward to working with him and learning from the experiences of his outstanding career with Spurs and England,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan football chiefs appoint Graham Roberts PAKISTAN football chiefs have appointed former Tottenham Hotspur defender Graham Roberts as manager of the national side. &#13; Roberts has signed an initial two-month deal with the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) ahead of their participation at next month\u2019s Asian Games in China, DAWN newspaper reported. &#13; The former England [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}