{"id":56903,"date":"2026-03-26T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56903"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:45:06","slug":"the-greens-to-use-two-different-goalkeepers-in-guatemala-and-uruguay-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56903","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Greens&#8221; to Use Two Different Goalkeepers in Guatemala and Uruguay Friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National team coach Vladimir Petkovic spoke about the squad&#8217;s final preparations ahead of the friendly matches against Guatemala and Uruguay. During a press conference held on Thursday in Turin, Italy, on the eve of the match against Guatemala, Petkovic revealed his plans regarding the goalkeeping position.<\/p>\n<p>He stated, &#8220;We plan to use two different goalkeepers in the next two matches, and the four goalkeepers currently with us have been performing well so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;The four goalkeepers possess high-level capabilities. I leave their specific training to the goalkeeping coach; in modern football, there is a specialized coach responsible for each area, but there is always a head coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Petkovic also praised the new addition to the squad, Achraf Abada, noting that he requires more time to adapt. He said, &#8220;Abada is an important player who demonstrated good potential in the Arab Championship and with his club. I have observed in recent training sessions that he has the qualities to remain with the group, but he needs time to fully integrate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The national coach emphasized that the player pool is very broad, and performance on the pitch will ultimately determine which players will represent the team in the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National team coach Vladimir Petkovic spoke about the squad&#8217;s final preparations ahead of the friendly matches against Guatemala and Uruguay. During a press conference held on Thursday in Turin, Italy, on the eve of the match against Guatemala, Petkovic revealed his plans regarding the goalkeeping position. He stated, &#8220;We plan to use two different goalkeepers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}