{"id":5288,"date":"2018-01-28T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2018-01-28T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:53:44","slug":"world-cup-2018-serie-a-based-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/2018\/01\/28\/world-cup-2018-serie-a-based-players\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018 Serie A Based Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SerieAWorldCup2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5293 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SerieAWorldCup2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SerieAWorldCup2018.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SerieAWorldCup2018-160x160.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SerieAWorldCup2018-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italy didn&#8217;t qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years. The administration of Italian football has been backward, racist and unable to adapt or see the problems that are in plain site. Having chosen a top level inexperienced national team coach in <span class=\"st\">Giampiero Ventura to lead the national team after Antonio Conte the resulting disasters were almost unbelievably clear and many have been ignored for years before the current failure. The state of the Italian league and the larger questions facing Italian football deserve their own analysis of course. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">The Serie A has fallen down the pecking order in European football, from its heights of the 1990s, but still features many stars of world football and is still ranked highly in UEFA tables.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of some of the players that are likely to feature for their national teams this summer in Russia. The Azzurri are not going to be there but many Italian based players will be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juventus<\/strong><br \/>\nMedhi Benatia Defender Morocco 30<br \/>\nJuan Cuadrado Midfielder Colombia 29<br \/>\nGonzalo Higuain Forward Argentina 30<br \/>\nMario Mandzukic Forward Croatia 31<\/p>\n<p><strong>Napoli<\/strong><br \/>\nArkadiusz Milik Forward Poland 23<br \/>\nPiotr Zielinski Midfielder Poland 23<br \/>\nKalidou Koulibaly Defender Senegal 26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roma<\/strong><br \/>\nRadja Nainggolan Midfielder Belgium 29 (Player has been in and out of Belgium&#8217;s team under coach Roberto Martinez)<br \/>\nAleksandar Kolarov Defender Serbia 32<br \/>\nAlisson Becker Goalkeeper Brazil 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inter Milan<\/strong><br \/>\nIvan Perisic Winger Croatia 28<br \/>\nYuto Nagatomo Defender Japan 31<br \/>\nMauro Icardi Forward Argentina 24<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC Milan<\/strong><br \/>\nAndre Silva Forward Portugal 22<br \/>\nCristian Zapata Defender Colombia 31<br \/>\nRicardo Rodriguez Defender Switzerland 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lazio<\/strong><br \/>\nNani Winger Portugal 31<br \/>\nSergej Milinkovic-Savic Midfielder Serbia 22<\/p>\n<p><strong>Udinese<\/strong><br \/>\nEmil Hallfredsson Midfielder Iceland 33<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy didn&#8217;t qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years. The administration of Italian football has been backward, racist and unable to adapt or see the problems that are in plain site. Having chosen a top level inexperienced national team coach in Giampiero Ventura to lead the national team after Antonio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[286,283],"class_list":["post-5288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-football","tag-italy","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rgdot.com\/bl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}