{"id":11685,"date":"2010-12-01T05:54:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T13:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/01\/strong-iranian-line-up-in-acl\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T05:54:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T13:54:32","slug":"strong-iranian-line-up-in-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/01\/strong-iranian-line-up-in-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Iranian line-up in ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/acl\/2010\/300x200\/iranian_clubs_lineup_3x2.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; <strong>Iran will have a strong line-up in the AFC Champions League 2011 with two former runners-up representing the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, both clubs are from the city of Esfahan \u2013 2007 runners-up Sepahan and 2010 runners-up Zob Ahan.<\/p>\n<p>With  Tehran giants, who are also archrivals in the local league, Persepolis  and Esteghlal completing the list, Iranian fans couldn\u2019t have asked for  more.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time champions Al Ittihad of Jeddah lead the Saudi  charge alongwith perennial bridesmaids Al Hilal, and Al Nasr and Al  Shabab and all three hail from the capital Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>While three  representatives from Japan are not yet confirmed, 2008 ACL winners Gamba  Osaka are in the frame to finish in the top three with one round left  in the league.<\/p>\n<p>If Gamba make it, then alongside Jeonbuk Motors of  Korea, who won the title in 2006 and qualified by defeating 2010  champions Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in the K-League play-offs, and Al  Ittihad, they will be the third former winners in the fray.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Iran will have a strong line-up in the AFC Champions League 2011 with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3470,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}