{"id":20738,"date":"2015-03-09T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20738"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T22:44:15","slug":"iran-loses-out-on-hosting-afc-asian-cup-2019-to-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/03\/09\/iran-loses-out-on-hosting-afc-asian-cup-2019-to-the-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Loses Out on Hosting AFC Asian Cup 2019 to the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MANAMA, <strong>The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was named host of the 2019 Asian Cup after beating Iran to stage the expanded 24-team tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision was announced in Bahrain on Monday afternoon following a meeting of the Asian Football Confederation\u2019s executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE and Iran were the only runners to host the Asian Cup after early interest from China, Bahrain, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which will take place in January of 2019, will be expanded from 16 teams to 24.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the second time the UAE has hosted Asia&#8217;s premier tournament after it staged the then 12-team event in 1996 where the home team lost in the final on penalties to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran held the event twice in 1968 and 1976, winning both occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MANAMA, The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was named host of the 2019 Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3377,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20738","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}