{"id":135947,"date":"2024-01-23T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=135947"},"modified":"2024-01-23T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:44:08","slug":"sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=135947","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sleeping giant&#8217; India awakening, Stimac says ahead of Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Stimac says Indian football is &#8220;definitely out of its slumber&#8221; but the outspoken coach warned against big expectations at the Asian Cup starting on Friday in Qatar.Football has struggled to find its feet in the cricket-obsessed nation of 1.4 billion people, with former FIFA president Sepp Blatter once calling India &#8220;a sleeping giant&#8221; of the sport.Former West Ham and Derby defender Stimac was appointed coach in May 2019 and India briefly broke into the top 100 of FIFA&#8217;s world rankings for only the second time in nearly three decades&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/01\/sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-asian-cup\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Stimac says Indian football is &#8220;definitely out of its slumber&#8221; but the outspoken coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qtr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/135947-sleeping-giant-india-awakening-stimac-says-ahead-of-asian-cup-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=29\" rel=\"category\">Qatar<\/a>","tag_info":"Qatar","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}