{"id":15868,"date":"2019-02-02T08:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T06:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2019-02-02T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T07:17:25","slug":"qatar-celebrate-first-title-of-asian-football-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=15868","title":{"rendered":"Qatar celebrate first title of Asian Football Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/avkguzpkppx1vsjl2ohj-e1549086975740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15869 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/avkguzpkppx1vsjl2ohj-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Qatar beat four-time champions Japan 3-1 in final<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Almoez Ali sets new single-tournament goals record (9)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They become the ninth different nation to win the Asian Cup<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>FIFA.com &#8211; The Qataris opened the scoring in spectacular fashion. The tournament\u2019s leading assist-maker Akram Afif (ten assists) and goalscorer Almoez Ali (nine goals) fittingly combined in what ended with an audacious bicycle kick converted by the 22-year-old striker. Abdelaziz Hatim doubled Qatar\u2019s lead with his second goal at UAE 2019, again assisted by Afif, about a quarter-of-an-hour later with a superb, driven shot outside the penalty area that found the top corner. Japan were rattled and Qatar nearly found a third before half-time, with only the woodwork denying captain Hasan Al Haydos.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes after half-time, Afif found Hatim again with an incisive pass in the penalty area after a counter attack, but the midfielder failed to convert the chance and skied his effort well over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Takumi Minamino brought Japan back to within one goal with a chipped finish over Saad Al Sheeb following some neat and incisive passing from the Samurai Blue in Qatar\u2019s penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>Having put forth an incredible ten assists throughout UAE 2019, Afif then saved his first goal for the best possible moment as he converted from the penalty spot after Japan captain Maya Yoshida was adjudged to handle the ball in the area. The Samurai Blue ran out of time to get back into the game following a late miss from Yoshida and Qatar sealed a first-ever Asian Cup championship, winning in their inaugural appearance in the tournament decider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What they said<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have no words. We beat an outstanding, outstanding team. I think in the first half we played very well, in the second half we had to defend a lot because they obviously want to win the title as well. It was a very tough game. We suffered and we know how to suffer. I\u2019m very happy for the players and all the people in Qatar who supported us from the beginning. Very well deserved, very happy, no words.&#8221;, said\u00a0<em>Qatar head coach Felix Sanchez<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/utopgyvodu8vrrg0ebfk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15870 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/utopgyvodu8vrrg0ebfk-1024x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/utopgyvodu8vrrg0ebfk-1024x448.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/utopgyvodu8vrrg0ebfk-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/utopgyvodu8vrrg0ebfk-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/utopgyvodu8vrrg0ebfk.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar beat four-time champions Japan 3-1 in final Almoez Ali sets new single-tournament goals record (9) They become the ninth different nation to win the Asian Cup FIFA.com &#8211; The Qataris opened the scoring in spectacular fashion. The tournament\u2019s leading assist-maker Akram Afif (ten assists) and goalscorer Almoez Ali (nine goals) fittingly combined in what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,5],"tags":[835,4747,1942,1460,1868,8238,3199],"class_list":["post-15868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slide","category-sport","tag-qatar","tag-celebrate","tag-cup","tag-first","tag-football","tag-of-asian","tag-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15873,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions\/15873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}