{"id":11650,"date":"2010-11-12T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T00:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/12\/asian-cup-mascots-unveiled-in-doha\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T00:48:53","slug":"asian-cup-mascots-unveiled-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/12\/asian-cup-mascots-unveiled-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Cup mascots unveiled in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ac2011_logo_300x200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ac2011_logo_300x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>MNA &#8211; DOHA, <strong>The AFC Asian Cup mascots were made known to the public at the Aspire Park in Doha, Qatar on Thursday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mascots are Jerboas, a rodent found in the deserts of Qatar. They are a five-person family from different locations in the North, South, East and West of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Football Confederation (AFC) General Secretary Alex Soosay believes the mascot family perfectly symbolize the Qatari heritage, culture and hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we all know, the mascots always carry a significant meaning, and represent a national culture and heritage,\u201d said Soosay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the mascot of the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011 represents Qatar and its hospitality, which has been the country\u2019s remarkable feature over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AFC Asian Cup 2011 will bring together the continent&#8217;s 16 leading team, including the four countries which qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa &#8211; South Korea, Japan, Ausralia and North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held from January 7 to 29.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; DOHA, The AFC Asian Cup mascots were made known to the public at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":11214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4204,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}