{"id":451365,"date":"2023-01-04T01:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=451365"},"modified":"2023-01-06T04:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T04:24:02","slug":"socceroos-world-cup-hero-mitch-duke-makes-a-big-career-move-after-starring-in-qatar-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/socceroos-world-cup-hero-mitch-duke-makes-a-big-career-move-after-starring-in-qatar-at-world-cup","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos World Cup hero Mitch Duke makes a big career move after starring in Qatar at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socceroos World Cup hero Mitch Duke is on the move in Japan, signing with J2 side Machida Zelvia ahead of the 2023 season. It follows the veteran scoring the winner for Australia versus Tunisia in Qatar in the group stages. The Socceroos stunned the world in the Middle East, beating the Africans and highly fancied Denmark to reach the round of 16, where they lost to eventual winners Argentina. Duke, 31, was on the books of Fagiano Okayama the past two campaigns, where he scored 11 goals in 49 appearances in the J2 competition. Machida Zelvia will be Duke&#8217;s third club in Japan, with the striker also having spent three seasons at Shimizu S-Pulse between 2015 and 2018. Duke is hungry to help Zelvia achieve promotion. &#8216;I&#8217;m so happy to have signed for Machida for the 2023 season,&#8217; Duke said on the club&#8217;s website. &#8216;I&#8217;m looking forward to getting started, meeting everyone at the club, meeting my teammates and playing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socceroos World Cup hero Mitch Duke has signed with ambitious J2 side Machida Zelvia. It follows the veteran, 31, scoring the winner for Australia versus Tunisia in Qatar in 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":[1,140,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451365","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=451365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}