{"id":38187,"date":"2012-11-18T22:44:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=38187"},"modified":"2012-11-19T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T11:34:06","slug":"novak-with-football-stars-in-rio-de-janeiro-charity-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/media\/novak-with-football-stars-in-rio-de-janeiro-charity-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak joins football stars in charity match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38172\" title=\"Odigran humanitarni fudbalski me\u010d u Rio de \u017daneiru\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_10.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_10-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_10-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_10-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serbian tennis star and world no.1, Novak Djokovic, played a friendly football game with Brazilian and global legends of the sport at Est\u00e1dio Ol\u00edmpico Jo\u00e3o Havelange on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They played two halves of 25 minutes each. Novak scored a goal from penalty, the final result was 3-3.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Belgrade native also assisted to Ed\u00edlson\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s countryman Dejan Petkovic, who starred for several Brazilian clubs in the last decade, scored the third goal for the \u2018blue\u2019 team.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qRHGODgE1nU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38173\" title=\"Odigran humanitarni fudbalski me\u010d u Rio de \u017daneiru\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_11.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_11-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_11-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_11-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Odigran humanitarni fudbalski me\u010d u Rio de \u017daneiru\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s tennis great, Gustavo Guga Kuerten, played for the \u2018red\u2019 squad.<\/p>\n<p>Former stars Romario, Bebeto and Zico also took part in the exhibition event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Brazil has always had football magicians. I&#8217;m happy some of them are here today. I had played with Guga before, he&#8217;s very good at football. But Djokovic is also good,&#8221;<\/strong> Zico praised Nole\u2019s football skills.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Novak and Guga got Fluminense shirts, and posed with M\u00e1rio Jorge Lobo Zagallo, who won the World Cup for Brazil both as a manager and as a player.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Odigran humanitarni fudbalski me\u010d u Rio de \u017daneiru\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38171\" title=\"Odigran humanitarni fudbalski me\u010d u Rio de \u017daneiru\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_09.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_09-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_09-267x193.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_09-312x224.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: AP, AFP, Beta<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football friendly that was played at Est\u00e1dio Ol\u00edmpico Jo\u00e3o Havelange on Sunday, finished tied 3-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":38172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[101010910,101012392,101010899,101010913,101010898,101010902,101010914,101010912,101010911],"class_list":["post-38187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-media","tag-bebetoen","tag-brazil-en","tag-dejan-petkovic-en","tag-edilsonen","tag-gustavo-kuerten-en","tag-rio-de-janeiroen","tag-romarioen","tag-zaballoen","tag-zicoen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38187"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38197,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38187\/revisions\/38197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}