{"id":17153,"date":"2014-01-27T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17153"},"modified":"2014-01-27T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:49:21","slug":"iran-names-more-cities-for-hosting-2019-afc-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/27\/iran-names-more-cities-for-hosting-2019-afc-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran names more cities for hosting 2019 AFC Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian Football Federation proposed two more cities to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as candidates for hosting the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran offered Shiraz and Ahvaz after the AFC competitions committee asked volunteer Asian countries to name two more cities to host the event.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had earlier proposed Tehran, Tabriz, Mashhad and Isfahan for hosting the AFC Asian Cup matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) plans to expand the Asian Cup from 16 to 24 teams as part of a raft of changes designed to increase the number of international matches for member nations.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC competitions committee made the proposal at a meeting in Oman on Saturday, at which they also announced plans to merge regional preliminary qualification rounds for the World Cup and Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian Football Federation proposed two more cities to the Asian Football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":4165,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153","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=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}