{"id":392629,"date":"2022-12-01T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=392629"},"modified":"2022-12-01T01:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:32:05","slug":"soccer-australia-in-party-mode-as-socceroos-reach-world-cup-knockouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/soccer-australia-in-party-mode-as-socceroos-reach-world-cup-knockouts","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Australia in party mode as Socceroos reach World Cup knockouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Dec 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia hailed Graham Arnold&#8217;s new &#8220;golden generation&#8221; on Thursday and fans demanded a national holiday as the country celebrated the Socceroos&#8217; unlikely advance to the World Cup knockout phase. Thousands gathered at Melbourne&#8217;s Fed Square in the middle of the night to watch Australia&#8217;s 1-0 upset of Denmark on a big screen, and were left dancing in the smoky light of flares as the Socceroos set up a last 16 clash against Argentina. read more Arnold&#8217;s team matched the side who made the last 16 at the 2006 World Cup in Germany but with a squad lacking the pedigree of the players from 16 years ago who came to be known as Australia&#8217;s &#8220;golden generation&#8221;. &#8220;Tell your kids. Tell your loved ones. Tell your mates. Whisper it, yell it, scream it, put it on a T-shirt and wear it to bed. Hard work gets you places,&#8221; Australian soccer pundit Adam Peacock wrote on the Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Dec 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia hailed Graham Arnold&#8217;s new &#8220;golden generation&#8221; on Thursday and fans demanded a national holiday as the country celebrated the Socceroos&#8217; unlikely advance to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}