{"id":11734,"date":"2010-12-22T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/22\/teams-count-down-to-asian-cup-final-23s\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:02:44","slug":"teams-count-down-to-asian-cup-final-23s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/22\/teams-count-down-to-asian-cup-final-23s\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams count down to Asian Cup final 23s"},"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>Sixteen coaches are now racking their brains over their final 23 players  for the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 finals, from January 7-29 in Doha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each  of the 16 teams are already down to their last 50 names. However, by  December 28, the final\u00a0list of 23 players\u00a0should be submitted to the  AFC.<\/p>\n<p>Some teams have a fair idea of which players will form the  bulk of their squad, such as UAE, who have picked a 25-man squad for a  training camp in Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Others, though, still have time to go  through the merits of each and every player on their teams before  deciding on a balance 23 to take to Doha.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the tournament, teams are organsing warm-up matches in which coaches can identify their top players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Sixteen coaches are now racking their brains over their final 23 players&#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-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3292,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","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=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/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=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}