{"id":11655,"date":"2010-11-13T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/13\/bin-hammam-hails-acl-champions\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T02:45:36","slug":"bin-hammam-hails-acl-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/13\/bin-hammam-hails-acl-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bin Hammam hails ACL champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Hammam02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Hammam02.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"341\" \/>AFC &#8211; TOKYO, <strong>AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam saluted Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma following  the Korean club\u2019s 3-1 AFC Champions League victory over Zob Ahan in  Saturday\u2019s final. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bin Hammam was at the National Stadium in Tokyo to present the  coveted trophy to Seongnam skipper Sasa Ognenovski after goals from the  31-year-old Australian, Cho Byung-kuk and Kim Cheol-ho saw the K-League  outfit crowned kings of Asian club football.<\/p>\n<p>A Mohamadreza  Khalatbari strike made it 2-1 as the Iranians threatened a Kim back  before Kim\u2019s third ensured Seongnam became the third Korean side to  claim ACL glory following Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in 2006 and last year\u2019s  winners Pohang Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a very exciting match which I  am sure was greatly enjoyed by all the spectators,\u201d said Bin Hammam,  referring to the 27,308 fans that shrugged off the chilly conditions in  Tokyo to enjoy the entertaining climax to this year\u2019s edition of Asia\u2019s  premier club competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeongnam Ilhwa Chunma thoroughly  deserved to be champions having displayed the highest standard of  football all over the pitch tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate Seongnam for winning the ACL title at the second attempt after their defeat in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must also praise runners-up Zob Ahan, who proved they were more than worthy of their place in the final as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  two teams played in a fully professional manner right up to the final  whistle and I was delighted to see how they played\u2026this really was a top  match between the two best club teams in Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019They are really Asia\u2019s best and I am very happy to see how the standard of Asian Football has risen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019I wish Seongnam all the best at the FIFA Club World Cup and hope that they represent Asia with pride in December.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TOKYO, AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam saluted Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma following the Korean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2282,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","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=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}