{"id":11494,"date":"2010-09-18T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/18\/seol-seeks-acl-glory-to-ease-fwc-pain\/"},"modified":"2010-09-18T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T01:28:11","slug":"seol-seeks-acl-glory-to-ease-fwc-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/18\/seol-seeks-acl-glory-to-ease-fwc-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Seol seeks ACL glory to ease FWC pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"acl04-trophy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/acl04-trophy.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"370\" \/>AFC &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Pohang Steelers\u2019 Seol Ki-hyun is hoping that AFC Champions League  2010 glory can help ease the pain of missing out on Korea Republic\u2019s  FIFA World Cup squad. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a strong career in Europe, the 31-year-old returned home to  play in the K-League last season with high hopes of getting into Huh  Jung-moo\u2019s national side, who went on to reach the last 16 of the  tournament in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>But a knee injury prevented him from making the squad and now the  former Wolves, Reading and Fulham player is determined to help his club  the Steelers defend the title they won last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really disappointing to miss out on the World Cup and, for a  while, I found it difficult to accept the situation,\u201d Seol told  the-afc.com. \u201cI came to K-League because I really wanted to play in the  World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I now want to win the AFC Champions League with Pohang. Although  the operation went really well, I have haven\u2019t fully recovered and feel  some pain after games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy stamina, however, is fine so I am able to last a whole match.<\/p>\n<p>Seol was on the pitch for the full 90 minutes as Pohang went down 2-1  to Zob Ahan in Esfahan in the first leg of the ACL quarter-finals on  Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He has played 10 K-League matches since making his debut on July 10, scoring five goals and two assists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team are in good form and every one of us really want to help Pohang defend our title,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also like to thank all the Asian fans who have supported  me,\u201d added Seol, who played for Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal on loan in the  ACL last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; SEOUL, Pohang Steelers\u2019 Seol Ki-hyun is hoping that AFC Champions League 2010 glory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2971,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}