{"id":12475,"date":"2011-10-13T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/13\/six-naturalised-players-to-bolster-indonesias-options\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:36:00","slug":"six-naturalised-players-to-bolster-indonesias-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/13\/six-naturalised-players-to-bolster-indonesias-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Six naturalised players to boost Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/118700\/118715hp2.jpg\" height=\"218\" width=\"351\" \/>GOAL &#8211; JAKARTA, <strong>The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) plans to call-up six naturalised players to bolster the national team following three consecutive 2014 World Cup qualifying defeats. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, five players pledged their allegiance to Indonesia by becoming naturalised, in Nigeria-born pair Greg Nwokolo and Victor Igbonefo, along with Tonnie Cussel, Stefano Lilipaly and Jhon van Beukering who all have Dutch descent.<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide United striker Sergio van Dijk is also set to undergo his naturalisation oath next week meaning he&#8217;d be available to wear the Merah Putih jersey. <\/p>\n<p>The five players took the oath at the Department of Justice and Human Rights of Indonesia and have a chance to play for Merah Putih in the three matches remaining in the third round of 2014 World Cup qualifiers. <\/p>\n<p>PSSI secretary general Tri Goestoro told reporters: &#8220;The decision about call-up the players is a pure right from the coach (Wim Rijsbergen). So, it depends to the coach whether to call them or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus it means, the six naturalised players are likely to strengthen Indonesia in their upcoming qualifiers away to Qatar on November 11 and at home to Iran on November 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; JAKARTA, The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) plans to call-up six naturalised players&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3921,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}