{"id":11791,"date":"2011-01-05T17:47:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/05\/australia-to-host-2015-afc-asian-cup\/"},"modified":"2011-01-05T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T01:47:06","slug":"australia-to-host-2015-afc-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/05\/australia-to-host-2015-afc-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to host 2015 AFC Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"asian-cup-trophy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/asian-cup-trophy.jpg\" height=\"206\" width=\"362\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Australia has been confirmed as the host nation of the 2015 AFC Asian  Cup finals after a meeting of the Asian Football Confederation\u2019s  Executive Committee in Doha on Wednesday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam made the announcement following the  meeting of the Executive Committee, who saw a final presentation by the  Football Federation Australia before deciding to approve the nation\u2019s  hosting of the 16th edition of the continental championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering  the efforts of the Football Federation Australia in developing the game  on their territory and considering also all the achievements that have  been made towards the development of football in Australia and to  encourage Australia to take steps towards developing the game, I am  happy and honoured to announce that the executive committee of the Asian  Football Confederation has approved Australia as the host nation of the  2015 AFC Asian Cup,\u201d said the AFC President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy congratulations  to all Australian football fans and to the FFA and its chairman, Frank  Lowy for winning the trust of AFC. We are of the opinion that Australia  will be the right and correct host for 2015, believing all the promises  that have been provided by the FFA to AFC will be met in a very short  period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FFA Chairman Frank Lowy said the awarding of the  hosting rights to Australia vindicated the nation\u2019s decision to join  the AFC at the start of 2006 and that holding the tournament would play a  key role in developing the sport across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are  delighted, I am delighted and Australia is delighted that the AFC  executive committee has decided to award the hosting of the 2015 AFC  Asian Cup to Australia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do the best possible job for football, for the AFC and, of course, for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralian  football made a big a change in 2003 and a couple of years later you  were kind enough to invite us to join AFC. We were delighted to join  then and we hope that this is a testimony to our efforts throughout Asia  and that we are trusted to host the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  people of Australia, the government of Australia and the FFA are ready,  willing and able to fulfil this privilege and obligation to ensure  football progresses throughout Asia through this of Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Australia has been confirmed as the host nation of the 2015 AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":5040,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","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=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}