{"id":11679,"date":"2010-11-27T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/27\/korea-beats-iran-to-win-bronze-in-football\/"},"modified":"2010-11-27T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T18:59:21","slug":"korea-beats-iran-to-win-bronze-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/27\/korea-beats-iran-to-win-bronze-in-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea beats Iran to win bronze in football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/res.heraldm.com\/content\/image\/2010\/11\/25\/20101125001418_0.jpg\" height=\"206\" width=\"383\" \/>Koreaherald &#8211; GUANGZHOU, <strong>Korea won the bronze medal in men\u2019s soccer of the ongoing Asian Games by coming from behind to beat Iran 4-3 on Thursday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Korea  scored all four goals in the second half thanks to Kim Bo-kyung, Park  Chu-young and substitute Ji Dong-won, who added two in two minutes at  the end of the half to make it a dramatic night for the Korean side.<\/p>\n<p>Korea started the game nicely. Just two minutes into the game Park  Chu-young found a cross inside the box, but his free header went wide. <\/p>\n<p>Iran,  however, took the lead on 5 minutes. A slick counter-attack allowed  Gholamreza Rezaei a free chance, and the forward comfortably slotted the  ball past goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu. <\/p>\n<p>Despite conceding an early  goal, the Koreans had more possession in the first half, and kept  attempting to level the game. But on several occasions the Korean side  just couldn\u2019t find the back of the net. <\/p>\n<p>In the 38th minute, Park nearly scored after receiving a through pass, but his attempt was well blocked by the keeper. <\/p>\n<p>The  Iranians added another just before halftime. A free-kick from outside  of the box, which appeared to be no danger, bounced into the empty net. <\/p>\n<p>Korea narrowed the gap just 3 minutes into the second half thanks to Koo Ja-cheol\u2019s powerful long-range drive. <\/p>\n<p>A  minute later, the Iranian side scored again. Once again, the Korean  defense were to blame as they were unable to clear the ball in side the  box, and Karim Ansarifard side-footed the ball into the far corner. <\/p>\n<p>But  the Koreans didn\u2019t give up. On 78 minutes, AS Monaco striker Park  tapped the ball home inside the box after receiving a quick cross from  the right corner. <\/p>\n<p>And 10 minutes after forward Ji dong-won  leveled the score with a powerful header, with the defenders still  looking confused, the heroic Ji scored the winner with another thumping  header just inside the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koreaherald &#8211; GUANGZHOU, Korea won the bronze medal in men\u2019s soccer of the ongoing Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3426,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679","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=11679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}