{"id":113968,"date":"2016-02-23T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113968\/tough-weekend-for-germiston-fc\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:43:24","slug":"tough-weekend-for-germiston-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/02\/23\/tough-weekend-for-germiston-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough weekend for Germiston FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston City Football Club\u2019s pre-season preparation continued with a friendly match against Olympia Italian Football Club, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The match formed part of the on-going friendly pre-season tournament hosted by Olympia.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Competing clubs include Olympia, Alberton FC, Bedfordview FC, Corinthians FC and Germiston FC.<\/p>\n<p>Both of Saturday\u2019s matches proved tough for Germiston FC, with the first team losing 5-0 to the host club and the second team recording a goalless draw.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The league season is set to kick-off in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other sports articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113452\/germiston-fc-take-part-in-pre-season-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston FC take part in pre-season tournament<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112934\/luso-comes-out-on-top-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luso comes out on top<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112625\/carnival-city-macsteel-national-classic-cycle-race-hit-the-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carnival City Macsteel National Classic Cycle race to hit the streets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113315\/julia-aims-for-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julia aims for gold<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='933e714a4cc37c3ac12d4edc277f8f98'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympia Italian Football Club proved too much for the Germiston City Football Club during their match-up this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":97557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,11,3],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1163,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-113968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-soccer","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","soccer","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}