{"id":11572,"date":"2013-07-28T08:18:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2013-07-28T08:18:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T22:18:01","slug":"besart-berisha-scores-against-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11572","title":{"rendered":"Besart Berisha scores against Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qP-ZrOkQ_bQ\" height=\"354\" width=\"629\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Manchester United vs A-League All Stars game didn&#8217;t quite live up to its billing on the pitch.\u00a0 Firstly, three of the A-League&#8217;s biggest marquee players (Del Piero, Heskey, Ono) all declined to play in the game.\u00a0 Secondly, the rest of the best of Australian A-League talent was in Asia playing international matches against Japan and China for the Socceroos.\u00a0 So what we got was Besart Berisha, Thomas Broich and the best of the third-choice A-League stars playing against Man Utd.\u00a0 The game ended up finishing 5-1 in a lopsided encounter but I didn&#8217;t care too much really since I got to see Berisha score against United after a nice link up with Broich.\u00a0 That was what I wanted and I got my birthday present.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of traveling superstar teams is a popular one in Australia.\u00a0 Manchester United vs A-League All Stars and Liverpool vs Melbourne Victory were attended by a combined crowd of over <em>190,000<\/em> people.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing who they bring out next year.\u00a0 Some more high profile exhibition games against Brisbane Roar wouldn&#8217;t go amiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester United vs A-League All Stars game didn&#8217;t quite live up to its billing on the pitch.\u00a0 Firstly, three of the A-League&#8217;s biggest marquee players (Del Piero, Heskey, Ono) all declined to play in the game.\u00a0 Secondly, the rest of the best of Australian A-League talent was in Asia playing international matches against Japan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1086,342],"class_list":["post-11572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-besart-berisha","tag-brisbane-roar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11574,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11572\/revisions\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}