{"id":34304,"date":"2026-08-30T03:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-tiny-town-aiming-to-defy-odds-in-bundesliga-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:25:19","slug":"the-tiny-town-aiming-to-defy-odds-in-bundesliga-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-tiny-town-aiming-to-defy-odds-in-bundesliga-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"The tiny town aiming to defy odds in Bundesliga debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Elversberg has no train station and a population of just 13,000, but its football team have enjoyed a meteoric rise from the regional German leagues to the Bundesliga.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c70d4n1d0r9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elversberg has no train station and a population of just 13,000, but its football team have enjoyed a meteoric rise from the regional German leagues to the Bundesliga. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34306,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34304\/revisions\/34306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}