{"id":80392,"date":"2015-09-06T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T12:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-v-s-japan-big-day-for-football-fans\/"},"modified":"2015-09-06T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T12:44:50","slug":"afghanistan-v-s-japan-big-day-for-football-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-v-s-japan-big-day-for-football-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan v\/s Japan: Big day for football fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\">KABUL (SW): Afghanistan&rsquo;s football team would take on Asian giant Japan in a FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying round on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Due to relative insecurity in the country, the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) would host this match in neighboring Iran&rsquo;s capital city Tehran. &nbsp;This is the first time Afghanistan would play against a more experienced Japan in an international encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Losing a friendly match to Thailand in Bangkok, the Afghan squad landed in Tehran a day earlier and had a practice session for the big event. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\">It its group E, Afghanistan is standing on 4<sup>th<\/sup> position behind Syria, Singapore and Japan. In previous qualifying matches, Afghanistan lost to Syria and overcame Cambodia to earn 3 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\">ENDS<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan\u2019s football team would take on Asian giant Japan in a FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying round on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}