{"id":173,"date":"2009-11-07T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:55:20","slug":"pohang-steelers-asian-champions-league-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pohang-steelers-asian-champions-league-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pohang Steelers Asian Champions League winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-174\" title=\"AFC_Champions_League\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AFC_Champions_League-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"AFC_Champions_League\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AFC_Champions_League-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AFC_Champions_League-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AFC_Champions_League.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>The trophy stays in East Asia for a fourth successive year as Pohang Steelers are crowned Asian Champions League winners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pohang Steelers defeated Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia 2-1 in the Asian Champions League Final in Tokyo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The win gives the Korean team a record third continental triumph and the title of the most successful club team in Asian football history.<\/p>\n<p>After a goalless first half, Pohang took the lead against the run of play through Noh Byung-joon just before the hour and just minutes later, Kim Hyung-il headed home a second.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Noor reduced the arrears with 16 minutes remaining to set up a nervous end but Pohang held on comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had vowed to attack and they soon made good on their promises, especially Al Ittihad who enjoyed the better of the opening exchanges and the half as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trophy stays in East Asia for a fourth successive year as Pohang Steelers are crowned Asian Champions League winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,135],"tags":[672,668,673,669,674,676,675,677,671,670],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-football","tag-al-ittihad","tag-asian-champions-league","tag-asian-champions-league-final-tokyo","tag-asian-champions-league-winners","tag-champions-league-final-tokyo","tag-kim-hyung-il","tag-mohammed-noor","tag-noh-byung-joon","tag-pohang-steelers","tag-pohang-steelers-asian-champions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}