{"id":17230,"date":"2014-02-02T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17230"},"modified":"2014-02-02T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:16:46","slug":"nekounam-goal-sends-kuwait-sc-to-acl-qualifying-round-2-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/02\/02\/nekounam-goal-sends-kuwait-sc-to-acl-qualifying-round-2-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Nekounam goal sends Kuwait SC to ACL qualifying round 2 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, <strong>A second half goal from Iran skipper Javad Nekounam was enough for Kuwait SC to win their Asian Champions League round 1 qualifier versus Al Shorta of Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian veteran midfielder, who had already scored the winner and his debut goal in a 3-2 league win midweek, got to the loose ball at the edge of the area and perfectly curled the ball intoe the lower right corner.<\/p>\n<p>It remained the only goal of the game and so Kuwait SC advanced to round 2 of 3, where they will take on Lokomotiv Tashkent in Uzbekistan next Saturday, also in a one-legged match-off.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the once more one-legged round 3 qualifying matches then will earn a berth in the 2014 AFC Champions League group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Iranian national team defender Pejman Montazeri&#8217;s successful stint at Qatari club Umm Salal continued with a 3-1 win over Mojtaba Jabbari&#8217;s Al Ahli. Montazeri joined Umm Salal when they were on bottom on the table and had just won their first game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the club has won each of their five matches and climbed up to mid-table. Al Ahli are meanwhile in fourth position of the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes Javad Nekounam&#8217;s winning goal in AFC Champions League qualifying today.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RyGvFo7igyg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RyGvFo7igyg<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, A second half goal from Iran skipper Javad Nekounam was enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5763,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17230","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=17230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}