{"id":32595,"date":"2018-07-01T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32595"},"modified":"2018-07-01T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:42:38","slug":"afc-who-was-the-asian-star-of-the-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/01\/afc-who-was-the-asian-star-of-the-group-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Who was the Asian star of the group stage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>After two weeks of scintillating action, the group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup ended on Thursday with Japan progressing to a last 16 clash against Belgium on Monday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Many of the Samurai Blue shone in the first round while, although departed, a number of players from Asia\u2019s other representatives grabbed the world\u2019s attention. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Morteza Pouraliganji \u2013 Islamic Republic of Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tasked with marking Spain\u2019s Diego Costa and Portugal\u2019s Ronaldo in Group B, no defender would have had a tougher assignment than Morteza Pouraliganji. He was outstanding in limiting their threat, with Costa grabbing a fortuitous goal and Ronaldo nullified for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, After two weeks of scintillating action, the group stage of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1417,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32595","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=32595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32597,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32595\/revisions\/32597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}