{"id":208727,"date":"2019-02-01T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=208727"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:54:46","slug":"qatar-wins-asian-cup-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatar-wins-asian-cup-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar wins Asian Cup for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Qatar became the champion of the 2019 Asian Cup this Friday (1), beating Japan by 3&#215;1. The match took place at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The victory is unprecedent for Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The first goal was made by Qatar player Almoed Ali at 12 minutes of the first half. The bicycle kick goal <em>(photo above)<\/em> jump-started the victory. This was the ninth goal by Ali in the Asian Cup, making him the top scorer in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it was Abdelaziz Hatim\u2019s turn to score for Qatar. At the second half, Takumi Minamino scored the first goal for Japan. Qatar, however, ended their goals with a penalty kick committed by Akram Hassan Afif. Qatar team had not suffered one single goal in all the Cup matches until the final.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar will participate in this year <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatar-compete-copa-america-brazil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copa Am\u00e9rica<\/a>, as well as Japan. The Arab country is also preparing to hold the <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/world-cup-in-qatar-to-kick-off-in-exactly-four-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Cup<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-208709\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bicycle kick goal by Qatar player Almoez Ali made him the top scorer in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":208709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,109],"tags":[29842,7199,6788,5963,7207,510,2541,7208,3047],"class_list":{"0":"post-208727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-asia-en-2","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-asian-cup","12":"tag-championship","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-qatar","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-wins","17":"tag-world-cup"},"wps_subtitle":"Bicycle kick goal by Qatar player Almoez Ali made him the top scorer in the competition.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}