{"id":36479,"date":"2019-05-21T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T02:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36479"},"modified":"2019-05-21T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T02:18:27","slug":"acl-2019-zob-ahan-and-al-nassr-postponed-due-to-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/21\/acl-2019-zob-ahan-and-al-nassr-postponed-due-to-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2019: Zob Ahan and Al Nassr postponed due to safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; KARBALA, <strong>The AFC Champions League 2019 Group A match between IR Iran\u2019s Zob Ahan and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr which was slated to be held today has been postponed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced that it had taken the decision \u201cwith&nbsp;the support of all parties concerned in the interests of safety.\u201d \u201cThe AFC puts the safety and security of all stakeholders at the centre of all its decisions,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final matchday fixture in Group A was to be held at the Karbala Sports City in Iraq with kick off slated for 2:00 AM HKT on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe match will now be rescheduled and the new date will be announced as soon as possible,\u201d the AFC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Karbala Sports City had witnessed unfortunate scenes when Zob Ahan knocked out home side Al Zawraa in the AFC Champions League earlier this month\u00a0with the Iraqi club\u2019s fans entering the stadium and attacking a few of the Zob Ahan players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Zob Ahan and Al Nassr have already booked a spot in the Round of 16 of the ACL 2019 collecting 11 and nine points respectively in Group A. Al Zawraa and UAE\u2019s Al Wasl FC have five and three points respectively and will meet each other in their final group fixture in Dubai today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; KARBALA, The AFC Champions League 2019 Group A match between IR&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":700,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479","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=36479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36481,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479\/revisions\/36481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}