{"id":81166,"date":"2016-01-01T19:38:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-leaves-politics-to-acknowledge-sporting-triumphs\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T19:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:38:57","slug":"wj-leaves-politics-to-acknowledge-sporting-triumphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-leaves-politics-to-acknowledge-sporting-triumphs\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ leaves politics to acknowledge sporting triumphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Impressive performance by cricket and football teams compelled the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Saturday to acknowledge the emerging talent. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, Speaker of the house said in his ruling that a delegation comprising of Wolesi Jirga members and government representatives would soon travel to the countries where the national teams would be playing.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&rsquo;s football team, which is the defending champions of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) will play against India in the final on Sunday January 03, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan has won all of the group matches and has qualified for the final with an impressive goal average.<\/p>\n<p>In the group matches, Afghanistan thrashed Bangladesh 4-0, Bhutan 3-0 and Maldives 4-1. In the semifinal, Afghanistan outclassed Sri Lanka 5-0.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This will be the last presence of Afghanistan in SAFF since the FIFA, football&rsquo;s governing body has moved the country from South Asia to Central Asia zone where it will have to play against stronger competitors like Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizstan.<\/p>\n<p>In cricket, Afghanistan has maintained the steady growth. In the ongoing One Day International series against the seasoned Zimbabwean squad, Afghanistan has bagged two impressive victories.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Afghanistan has won a total of 49 points and has jumped from 12<sup>th<\/sup> to 10<sup>th<\/sup> &nbsp;spot on the International Cricket Council&rsquo;s rankings. The top 10 slots have always been occupied by full ICC&rsquo;s members and Afghanistan by defeating Zimbabwe has earned a spot there.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressive performance by cricket and football teams compelled the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Saturday to acknowledge the emerging talent.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81166","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=81166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}