{"id":14385,"date":"2012-09-08T03:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/soccer-lacklustre-brazil-struggle-to-beat-south-africa-1-0\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T03:56:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:56:46","slug":"soccer-lacklustre-brazil-struggle-to-beat-south-africa-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-lacklustre-brazil-struggle-to-beat-south-africa-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Lacklustre Brazil struggle to beat South Africa 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Downie<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">SAO PAULO, Sept 7<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A disappointing Brazil beat<br \/>\nSouth Africa 1-0 in a friendly on Friday but the lacklustre<br \/>\nperformance cast further doubts on coach Mano Menezes&#8217;s future<br \/>\nin the job.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Menezes sent out an attacking team but they struggled to<br \/>\nbreak down the dogged South Africans and the match was only<br \/>\ndecided in the 74th minute with a goal from second-half<br \/>\nsubstitute Hulk.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The striker signed by Zenit St Petersburg last week for 55<br \/>\nmillion euros ($70.4 million) had been on the pitch for less<br \/>\nthan 10 minutes when he pounced on a rebound to turn and smash<br \/>\nthe ball home from 12 metres.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Menezes is under pressure to produce an exciting and winning<br \/>\nside ahead of the 2013 Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup,<br \/>\nboth of which will be held in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The win was his second in two games but followed a<br \/>\ndisappointing loss to Mexico in the Olympic Games final.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 0.7812 euros)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Andrew Downie, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO, Sept 7 (Reuters) &#8211; A disappointing Brazil beat South Africa 1-0 in a friendly on Friday but the lacklustre performance cast further doubts on coach Mano Menezes&#8217;s future in the job. Menezes sent out an attacking team but they struggled to break down the dogged South Africans and the match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}