{"id":4332,"date":"2014-06-14T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2014-06-14T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:52:07","slug":"colombia-records-colourful-victory-against-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/colombia-records-colourful-victory-against-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia Records Colourful Victory Against Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian started what looked like carnival in Brazil after scoring only five minutes as they beat Greece 3-0 in their group C opening game at the ongoing FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Fiorentina&#8217;s Juan Cuadrado showed some lovely skill outside of the Greek box before picking out Armero. His shot was poor, but Kostas Manolas failed to get enough of a boot on the clearance as goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis was forced to watch in agony as the ball crept agonisingly over the line.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez added another when he swept a third goal into the net from Juan Cuadrado&#8217;s pass a minute into time added on, but the dancing was done for the day.<\/p>\n<p>In a departure from their solidity in clasping Euro 2004 a decade ago, Greece were undone for a second time from a corner when James Rodriguez&#8217;s poor set-piece was flicked on by Abel Aguilar for Teofilo Gutierrez to convert from close range on 58 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez added another when he swept a third goal into the net from Juan Cuadrado&#8217;s pass a minute into time added on, but the dancing was done for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian started what looked like carnival in Brazil after scoring only five minutes as they beat Greece 3-0 in their group C opening game at the ongoing FIFA World Cup. Fiorentina&#8217;s Juan Cuadrado showed some lovely skill outside of the Greek box before picking out Armero. His shot was poor, but Kostas Manolas failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,82],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}