{"id":5521,"date":"2024-03-28T23:09:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/saudi-arabias-faltering-hopes-on-the-world-football-stage\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:09:06","slug":"saudi-arabias-faltering-hopes-on-the-world-football-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/saudi-arabias-faltering-hopes-on-the-world-football-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s faltering hopes on the world football stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf\">A biting wind enveloped the Riyadh night on this last evening of February. An unusually cool breeze, but not enough to deter Al-Bairaq&#8217;s female football players from training on the artificial turf of a private school in the north-west of the Saudi capital. 14 players, ranging from teenagers to 30-somethings, had rented the equipment (at a cost of over \u20ac100 per two hours) for a final training session before a tournament in Jeddah in early March. Warmly dressed, with most wearing leggings under their shorts, they played a series of football tennis (a training exercise involving a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/football\/article\/2024\/03\/20\/saudi-arabia-s-faltering-hopes-on-the-world-football-stage_6636677_130.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biting wind enveloped the Riyadh night on this last evening of February. An unusually cool breeze, but not enough to deter Al-Bairaq&#8217;s female football players from training on the artificial turf of a private school in the north-west of the Saudi capital. 14 players, ranging from teenagers to 30-somethings, had rented the equipment (at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"category-sports-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}