{"id":3505,"date":"2026-05-15T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:20:07","slug":"wataru-endo-named-in-japan-squad-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=3505","title":{"rendered":"Wataru Endo named in Japan squad for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Endo is set to captain his country at the tournament, which will be played in the USA, Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Drawn in Group F, Japan will face the Netherlands (June 14), Tunisia (June 21) and Sweden (June 26).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad to be in the Japan squad for the World Cup,\u201d said Endo. \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to lead this Japan team as the captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy way to recover from the injury but I believed in myself to make this happen and will keep working hard to get fit for the games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you all my teammates, staff and the fans for always being with and supporting me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to see all the Liverpool FC fans on the pitch at Anfield next week before going to the World Cup. YNWA.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endo is set to captain his country at the tournament, which will be played in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}