{"id":11255,"date":"2011-12-06T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/we-want-to-win-championship-at-any-cos\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:09:30","slug":"we-want-to-win-championship-at-any-cos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/we-want-to-win-championship-at-any-cos\/","title":{"rendered":"We want to win the Championship at any cost: Miranda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clifford Miranda played a stellar role in India\u2019s 5-0 triumph against Bhutan. But the team-man that he is, he stays aware that the job has just begun. Stressing there isn\u2019t any room for slip-ups, Miranda, in an exclusive interview to AIFF<\/a> speaks at length about the team\u2019s plan in the SAFF Championship. Excerpts<\/b>:

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\nWhat do you want to say about your performance against Bhutan?<\/b>
I\u2019m happy that I contributed to my team\u2019s victory. It was a crucial match for us. We played well as a team and it gave us a positive result.<\/p>\n

After the opening match draw against Afghanistan, what was the difference against Bhutan?<\/b>
We took some time to get used to the ground as we had never played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The early goal which we conceded against Afghanistan upset our plans a bit. Besides, one needs to admit that Afghanistan are a quality side as several of their players play abroad.<\/p>\n

A draw against Sri Lanka will see India through to the semis. What\u2019s the mood in the camp?<\/b>
Sri Lanka are a very capable side. They are very fast and agile. We can\u2019t afford to be complacent against them. We will go out to win the match and qualify for the semis.<\/p>\n

Is there any extra pressure on the players as India are the defending champions in the SAFF Championship?<\/b>
We have one thing in mind at present \u2013 to play good football and to win the tournament. There\u2019s no other way. The team is desperate to retain the Championship.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clifford Miranda played a stellar role in India\u2019s 5-0 triumph against Bhutan. But the team-man that he is, he stays aware that the job has just begun. Stressing there isn\u2019t any room for slip-ups, Miranda, in an exclusive interview to AIFF speaks at length about the team\u2019s plan in the SAFF Championship. Excerpts: What do you want to say about your performance against Bhutan?I\u2019m happy that I contributed to my team\u2019s victory. It was a crucial match for us. We played well as a team and it gave us a positive result. After the opening match draw against Afghanistan, what was <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,166,1879],"class_list":["post-11255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44167,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions\/44167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}