{"id":131309,"date":"2018-03-21T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=131309"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T09:56:35","slug":"syrian-national-football-team-aspires-to-win-2018-international-friendship-championship-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=131309","title":{"rendered":"Syrian national football team aspires to win 2018 International Friendship Championship in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, SANA &#8211; The 2018 International Friendship Championship kicks off on Wednesday in Baghdad at Basrah International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>This football tournament will bring together the National football teams of Syria, Iraq, and Qatar, in preparation for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup due to be held in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian national football team trained for the Championship in Basra under the supervision of German coach Bernd Stange. This will be the first championship for the team under Stange&#8217;s coaching.<\/p>\n<p>The first match will be between Iraq and Qatar on Wednesday, followd by a match between Syria and Qatar on the 24th, and between Syria and Iraq on the 27th, with the winner being the team with the highest points.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-131309 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team5.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team.1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Syrian-national-football-team.1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Shaza \/ Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, SANA &#8211; The 2018 International Friendship Championship kicks off on Wednesday in Baghdad at Basrah International Stadium. This football tournament will bring together the National football teams of Syria, Iraq, and Qatar, in preparation for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup due to be held in the UAE. The Syrian national football team trained for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,5],"tags":[17072,4236,17073,9321,17071],"class_list":["post-131309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-sport","tag-2019-afc-asian-cup-due-to-be-held-in-the-uae","tag-baghdad","tag-german-coach-bernd-stange","tag-syrian-national-football-team","tag-the-2018-international-friendship-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}