{"id":2387,"date":"2014-06-01T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2014-06-01T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T11:21:14","slug":"honduras-defeated-in-world-cup-warm-up-by-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/honduras-defeated-in-world-cup-warm-up-by-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Honduras defeated in World Cup warm-up by Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mevlut Erdinc scored one goal and set up another as Turkey defeated Brazil-bound Honduras 2-0 on Thursday in a 2014 World Cup warmup friendly match.<\/p>\n

Erdinc, a striker for French club Saint-Etienne, scored in the 70th minute and made the key pass to Caner Erkin for his 83rd minute tally.<\/p>\n

It was the first in a series of World Cup preparation matches for Honduras, which will open play in Brazil against France on June 15 and also face Ecuador and Switzerland in Group E matches.<\/p>\n

“Los Catrachos” also face warmup matches against Israel on Sunday at Houston and at Miami on June 7 against England.<\/p>\n

Turkey, which failed to qualify for the World Cup, sported a young lineup that lacked injured Arda Turan of Champions League runner-up Atletico Madrid. They will face the World Cup-bound United States on Sunday in suburban New York…<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

South Africa Today – Sport – Football – Honduras vs Turkey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mevlut Erdinc scored one goal and set up another as Turkey defeated Brazil-bound Honduras 2-0 on Thursday in a 2014 World Cup warmup friendly match. Erdinc, a striker for French club Saint-Etienne, scored in the 70th minute and made the key pass to Caner Erkin for his 83rd minute tally. It was the first in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2,84],"tags":[227,238,240,151,224,231,239,45,111,230,234,237,236,235,221,137,242,229,114,120,228,233,223,222,241,1270,232,225,226],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-world-cup","tag-2014-world-cup","tag-arda-turan","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-brazil","tag-brazil-bound-honduras","tag-caner-erkin","tag-champions-league","tag-ecuador","tag-england","tag-french-club-saint-etienne","tag-group-e-matches","tag-houston","tag-israel","tag-los-catrachos","tag-mevlut-erdinc","tag-miami","tag-new-york","tag-saint-etienne","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-striker","tag-switzerland","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-defeated-honduras","tag-united-states","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-preparation-matches","tag-world-cup-warmup-friendly-match","tag-world-cup-warmup-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}