{"id":39595,"date":"2024-07-01T20:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-were-not-afraid-of-portugal-slovenia-coach-kek\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T20:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:05:01","slug":"euro-2024-were-not-afraid-of-portugal-slovenia-coach-kek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-were-not-afraid-of-portugal-slovenia-coach-kek\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: We\u2019re not afraid of Portugal \u2014 Slovenia coach Kek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Slovenia manager Matjaz Kek has said that his side has no fear for European giants Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides will clash in the round of sixteen of the ongoing Euro 2024 in Germany and the manager insisted that they are well-prepared to face the Cristiano Ronaldo-led side.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the press ahead of the game, he admitted that Slovenia, not the favourites in the match, are relishing the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Kek said (via French outlet RFI): \u201cWhen you look at their squad list, you get a headache, they can rotate and change however much they want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut our approach does not change because of that. I see Portugal as one of the favourites to win the tournament, but Slovenia has not been the favourite in all three group matches, and we\u2019re not the favourites tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not afraid of them; we\u2019re really glad to be able to play against such teams. It will be a tough match, but we\u2019re really happy to be able to play it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: We\u2019re not afraid of Portugal \u2014 Slovenia coach Kek<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovenia manager Matjaz Kek has said that his side has no fear for European giants Portugal. Both sides will clash&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2713,15,3403,19281,160],"tags":[1279,17255,8,613,2716,19554,180,1157,3406,19282,201,2319],"class_list":["post-39595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euro-2024","category-news","category-portugal","category-slovenia","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-afraid","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-coach","tag-euro","tag-kek","tag-news","tag-not","tag-portugal","tag-slovenia","tag-sport","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}