{"id":11910,"date":"2011-01-29T20:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T04:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/29\/record-fourth-title-for-japan\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T04:21:58","slug":"record-fourth-title-for-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/29\/record-fourth-title-for-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Record fourth title for Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Japan have won the AFC Asian Cup for a record four times now.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/asian_cup\/2011\/finals\/300x200\/jpn_champion_290111_3x2.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They won the title for the first time in 1992 after defeating Saudi  Arabia 1-0. In 2000, they beat Saudi Arabia again by the same scoreline  to keep the title under lock and key.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, the Samurai Blue clinched the silverware for the  third time after a 3-1 victory over East Asian rivals and then hosts  China.<\/p>\n<p>Only Iran (1968, 72, 76) and Saudi Arabia (84, 88, 96) have won the title less times than Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roll of honour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2011: Japan<br \/>2007: Iraq<br \/>2004: Japan<br \/>2000: Japan<br \/>1996: Saudi Arabia<br \/>1992: Japan<br \/>1988: Saudi Arabia<br \/>1984: Saudi Arabia<br \/>1980: Kuwait<br \/>1976: Iran<br \/>1972: Iran<br \/>1968: Iran<br \/>1964: Israel<br \/>1960: Korea Republic<br \/>1956: Korea Republic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Japan have won the AFC Asian Cup for a record four times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3703,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}