{"id":11697,"date":"2010-12-05T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T22:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/05\/afc-asian-cup-preparations-gather-pace\/"},"modified":"2010-12-05T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T22:47:18","slug":"afc-asian-cup-preparations-gather-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/05\/afc-asian-cup-preparations-gather-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup preparations gather pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>The preparations for the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 gathered pace as an  AFC advanced office started functioning at the Qatari capital from  December 1. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AFC team will supervise the preparations in all the five  venues \u2013 Khalifa, Al Sadd, Al Gharafa, Al Rayyan and Qatar Sports Club  stadiums where top 16 countries of the continent will vie for the top  honours from January 7 to 29, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a big step in  successfully organising Asia\u2019s biggest tournament. The preparations in  all the venues, training sites, hotels et al are at the final stages and  I am sure the stage will be set once the teams start arriving in Doha,\u201d  Tournament Director Tokuaki Suzuki said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Qatar Local  Organising Committee (QLOC) has done a tremendous job so far to fulfill  the requirements and I am sure they will make sure that the teams will  have the best atmosphere to compete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Asia\u2019s showpiece event and we, together with QLOC, want to make it a grand success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, The preparations for the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 gathered pace as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2681,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697","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=11697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/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=11697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}