{"id":11379,"date":"2010-07-30T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T03:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/07\/30\/north-korean-team-publicly-humiliated\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T03:03:24","slug":"north-korean-team-publicly-humiliated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/07\/30\/north-korean-team-publicly-humiliated\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean team publicly humiliated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"NorthKorea-fan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/NorthKorea-fan.jpg\" height=\"251\" width=\"350\" \/>PFDC &#8211; PYONGYANG, <strong>The North Korean national football team, opponent of Iran in the 2011 Asian Cup, had to undergo a public mauling after their return home from World Cup.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The team, with exception of the foreign based players, and their coach Kim Jung-Hun had returned home from the World Cup, where they lost all three games including a 0-7 hammering by Portugal, with delay after making a stop in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>While the players were lucky to just be excoriated in front of 400 athletes and sports students for &#8220;betraying the country&#8221; for approximately six hours &#8211; still a rather mild punishment for North Korean standards &#8211; the coach is reported to additionally having been assigned to work at a construction site and having to fear for his safety.<\/p>\n<p>Jung-Hun is accused of directly having betrayed the leader&#8217;s son and therefore all players were forced to critisize their coach during the public humiliation.<\/p>\n<p>It has to be seen if or in which shape the team will appear in next January&#8217;s Asian Cup, where they have been grouped with Iran, Iraq and the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Should the unfortunately often double-minded FIFA stick to there &#8220;no political interference&#8221;-policy, North Korea could even be expelled from the continental tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; PYONGYANG, The North Korean national football team, opponent of Iran in the 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":6463,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}