{"id":80410,"date":"2015-09-08T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-receives-6-goals-against-asian-giant-japan\/"},"modified":"2015-09-08T01:10:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T01:10:40","slug":"afghanistan-receives-6-goals-against-asian-giant-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-receives-6-goals-against-asian-giant-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan receives 6 goals against Asian giant Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (SW):&nbsp;Facing Asian giant Japan in a FIFA World Cup qualifier on Tuesday, Afghanistan sustained six goals in Tehran&rsquo;s Azadi stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Packed with international stars, Japan scored first goal of the match 10<sup>th<\/sup> minutes into the game. Borussia Dortmund&nbsp;playmaker Shinji Kagawa struck in the 10th minute and Masato Morishige doubled the lead 10 minutes before halftime for Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half against 58<sup>th<\/sup> ranked Japan, Afghanistan sustained four more goals. Japanese strikers Shinji Kagawa&nbsp;and&nbsp;Shinji Okazaki&nbsp;scored twice each.<\/p>\n<p>This was third qualifier for the 130<sup>th<\/sup> ranked Afghanistan that managed to overcome Cambodia 1-0 and lost to Syria 1-6.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 58th in the world, Japan could not beat Singapore in its previous qualifying encounter leaving it second in the Group E.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Asian Champion Japan would take on group leader Syria in their next qualifier in Oman on October 8.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (SW): Facing Asian giant Japan in a FIFA World Cup qualifier on Tuesday, Afghanistan sustained six goals in Tehran\u2019s Azadi stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80410","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\/80410","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=80410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}