{"id":34459,"date":"2018-12-11T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34459"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:25:17","slug":"afc-asian-cup-2019-team-slogans-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/11\/afc-asian-cup-2019-team-slogans-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup 2019: Team slogans revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>With the biggest and best AFC Asian Cup less than one month away, passionate fans from across the Continent and beyond have confirmed the Team Bus slogans for the 24 participating teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After shortlisting the thousands of entries in phase one, each nation was then given a selection of three catchphrases to choose from in the second phase, which ended on November 1, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The month-long contest, which was launched to give football fans the opportunity to showcase their passion and be a part of the continental showpiece, was a major hit on social media with the second phase receiving over 105,000 votes across the AFC\u2019s digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran led the Continent in engagement numbers, garnering over 25,000 votes, with the winning slogan \u2013 Eighty Million People, One Nation, One Heartbeat \u2013 securing over 11,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFC Asian Cup is the pinnacle of Asian football and we are focused on giving our fans a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The glowing support from our fans across the Continent further underlines the increasing sense of excitement and passion as the tournament draws closer,\u201d said Dato\u2019 Windsor John, General Secretary of the Asian Football Confederation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strive in every competition to improve on the legacy from the last edition and with stronger fan engagement and the world-class football on display, I have no doubts that the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 will exceed all our expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate winners will now receive an autographed national team jersey and will see their slogans painted on the respective official team buses, which will ferry some of the world\u2019s biggest footballing names between the eight stadiums across the four cities, from January 5 to February 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The final results of the 24 winning team bus slogans are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A<\/strong><br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates: Our time is now<br \/>\nThailand: Changsuek together as one<br \/>\nIndia: Blue Tigers: The hope of a nation<br \/>\nBahrain: Never say never<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B<\/strong><br \/>\nAustralia: Heroes will rise<br \/>\nSyria: One team. One nation. One Syria<br \/>\nPalestine: We will triumph. We are Palestine<br \/>\nJordan: Make Jordan Proud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C<\/strong><br \/>\nKorea Republic: We are the Reds!<br \/>\nChina PR: Fighting for the same dream<br \/>\nPhilippines: To dream the impossible<br \/>\nKyrgyz Republic: The White Falcons!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group D<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Iran: Eighty Million People, One Nation, One Heartbeat<\/strong><br \/>\nIraq: Lions always prevail<br \/>\nVietnam: Golden Star Warriors<br \/>\nYemen: Never give up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group E<\/strong><br \/>\nSaudi Arabia: From the desert to the throne of the Continent<br \/>\nQatar: We &#038; the Nation of Pride are Fine<br \/>\nLebanon: The Cedars are coming<br \/>\nDPR Korea: In the spirit of Chollima<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group F<\/strong><br \/>\nJapan: Respect all, fear none<br \/>\nUzbekistan: Here we are Uzbekistan<br \/>\nOman: Four million hearts, one dream<br \/>\nTurkmenistan: Green ground, Green team, Green Turkmenistan<\/p>\n<p>(Source: the-afc)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, With the biggest and best AFC Asian Cup less than one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1042,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34461,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459\/revisions\/34461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}