{"id":12209,"date":"2011-06-08T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T02:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/08\/sepahan-to-meet-al-sadd-zob-ahan-to-take-on-suwon\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T02:36:29","slug":"sepahan-to-meet-al-sadd-zob-ahan-to-take-on-suwon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/08\/sepahan-to-meet-al-sadd-zob-ahan-to-take-on-suwon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan to meet Al Sadd; Zob Ahan to take on Suwon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"acl_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/acl_logo.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>MNA &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s Sepahan and Zob Ahan have been drawn against Qatari and South Korean teams in the AFC Champions League quarterfinal round on Tuesday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s title-holding team will host Al Sadd in Isfahan\u2019s Fooladshahr stadium on September 14 in the first leg. The second leg has been scheduled for September 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good draw and we were expecting to meet Al Sadd,\u201d said Sepahan manager Majid Basirat.<\/p>\n<p>The Sepahan official also siad that the short distance between Isfahan and Doha would be a distinct advantage for the eventual winners when it comes to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe distance is short and the time difference is none. This will definitely help the winners in the next stage,\u201d said Basirat.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 finalist Zob Ahan will take on South Korean powerhouse Suwon Samsung Bluewings in an away game at the Big Bird Stadium on September 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s going to be difficult for us &#8212; we only have two strikers and one is injured,\u201d said Bluewings general manager Lee Ho-Seung. \u201cWe need to find at least two to three new strikers. We are looking for foreign players. I heard the two Iranian clubs are strong. I&#8217;m not confident of winning the title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other quarterfinals: two-time Asian Champions League winners Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia will meet K-League champion FC Seoul and South Korean Jeonbuk Motors will meet Cerezo Osaka of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; ESFAHAN, Iran\u2019s Sepahan and Zob Ahan have been drawn against Qatari and South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4628,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209","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=12209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}