{"id":20579,"date":"2010-06-25T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_italy_crash_out_of_the_world_cup\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T09:01:06","slug":"smh_italy_crash_out_of_the_world_cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20579","title":{"rendered":"SMH: Italy Crash out of the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup winning&#8230;[Italian coach Marcello] Lippi made no excuses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take all responsibility, there are no excuses because when a team comes to a match as important as tonight&#8217;s with terror in their legs, their heads and their hearts, and don&#8217;t manage to express themselves, it means that the coach hasn&#8217;t prepared them in the right way,&#8221; an ashen-faced Lippi told a news conference without even being prompted by a question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think we could win the World Cup but I thought we would do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a strikingly honest assessment of what went wrong, Lippi pummelled himself verbally for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world-cup-2010\/world-cup-news\/terror-in-our-legs-heads-and-hearts-lippi-20100625-z3zn.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup winning&#8230;[Italian coach Marcello] Lippi made no excuses. &#8220;I take all responsibility, there are no excuses because when a team comes to a match as important as tonight&#8217;s with terror in their legs, their heads and their hearts, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20579\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,200,119,448,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-globalization","category-italy","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}