{"id":11755,"date":"2010-12-28T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T03:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/28\/princes-of-persia-to-begin-2011-event\/"},"modified":"2010-12-28T19:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T03:40:39","slug":"princes-of-persia-to-begin-2011-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/28\/princes-of-persia-to-begin-2011-event\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Princes of Persia&#8217; to begin 2011 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Iranian bus\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20101228\/gholami20101228171058700.jpg\" height=\"259\" width=\"389\" \/>PTV &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran&#8217;s &#8220;Princes of  Persia&#8221; will begin the 2011 AFC Asian Cup within 10 days, with Qatari  officials ordering new colorful buses for transferring players and  coaching staff.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>In an innovative move, Qatar on Tuesday unveiled the buses of the 16  national teams participating in the continental championship to be held  in Doha, AFC website reported. <\/p>\n<p>The vehicles will transfer the teams to and from their official  hotels to matches and training sessions and each has been emblazoned  with a slogan or nickname chosen by fans in a competition conducted on <em>the-afc.com<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian squad will glide to the tournament with its bus, entitled &#8220;Princes of Persia.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Iran was formerly known as Persia before it was officially renamed by a royal decree in 1935. <\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Iraq will travel around Qatar in a bus bearing  the team&#8217;s nickname, &#8220;The Lions of Mesopotamia&#8221; while Australia will be  ferried around in a bus proclaiming &#8220;We&#8217;re the Thunder from Down Under.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Iran is in Group D of the AFC Asian Cup, which runs from January 7 to 29, with the United Arab Emirates, North Korea and Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Iran was held to a scoreless draw by Qatar in a friendly match ahead of the Asian Cup. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; DOHA, Iran&#8217;s &#8220;Princes of Persia&#8221; will begin the 2011 AFC Asian Cup within&#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-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":5959,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","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=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}