{"id":83004,"date":"2016-10-11T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T08:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/india-to-play-friendly-football-match-in-kabul\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T08:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T08:15:57","slug":"india-to-play-friendly-football-match-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/india-to-play-friendly-football-match-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"India to play friendly football match in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"590\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/10 October\/11 Oct\/180315671.jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Efforts are underway to bring Indian football team for a friendly football match against Afghanistan in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Kazimi, media manager for the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) has said the match would be played after the security clearance during &ldquo;Nawroz&rdquo; (New Year) in March. He added that the proposed match would be played under floodlights. Kazimi noted that the Indian side has acknowledged the offer, and are awaiting security clearance.<\/p>\n<p>It was some seven decades ago when the Indian football team visited Kabul on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> August in 1941 for a friendly football match. The Afghan side lost that match to the guests 1-3. In the nine international encounters between the two so far, India has won seven, one has been drawn and only one, a more important one, the final of South Asia Football Championship was won by the Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly match on the occasion of Nawruz is part of the New Year celebrations, and a commemoration of the friendly ties between the two long-time allies. Up to 10 thousand spectators in the stadium and millions more on television screens would be able to watch this landmark match, Kazimi said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Efforts are underway to bring Indian football team for a friendly football match against Afghanistan in Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83004","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\/83004","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=83004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}