{"id":21853,"date":"2018-09-04T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=21853"},"modified":"2018-09-04T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:21:40","slug":"marakis-shines-in-the-1st-league-of-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/marakis-shines-in-the-1st-league-of-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Marakis shines in the 1st League of Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Marakis, a defensive midfielder from South Africa, with a triple nationality: Portuguese, South African and Greek, returned to tread the lawns of the 1st Portuguese League last weekend (08\/26\/2018), after entering on the 27th minute of the game against Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. Just over 60 minutes were enough to impress everyone, and take on a big role for the team&#8217;s first win this season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Currently in CDN Nacional da Madeira , Marakis is one of the starters to face one of Portugal&#8217;s biggest teams tomorrow, Sport Lisboa Benfica, who secured a 4-1 win against\u00a0 Paok on Wednesday for the Champions league.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On his last year of contract, Marakis has been approached by several clubs knowing that in January he will be able to sign a new contract for next season. Knowing this, many international scouts, including Manchester United will be present tomorrow in the next fixture to observe SLBenfica and Marakis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game will be live on Sporttv at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Best moments of the last game:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"I66DRceaGgQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I66DRceaGgQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ap-custom-wrapper\"><\/div><!--ap-custom-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Marakis, a defensive midfielder from South Africa, with a triple nationality: Portuguese, South African and Greek, returned to tread the lawns of the 1st Portuguese League last weekend (08\/26\/2018), after entering on the 27th minute of the game against Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. Just over 60 minutes were enough to impress everyone, and take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3684],"class_list":["post-21853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-sergiomarakis-football-soccer-marakis-smarakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}