{"id":11870,"date":"2018-03-27T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2018-03-27T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:54:56","slug":"north-korea-clinch-2019-asian-cup-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/27\/north-korea-clinch-2019-asian-cup-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea clinch third straight Asian Cup appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea became the 22nd nation to qualify for next January&#8217;s AFC Asian Cup on Tuesday night with an emphatic 2-0 win over Hong Kong at Pyongyang&#8217;s\u00a0Kim Il-Sung Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts took the lead through Luzern striker Jong Il-Gwan&#8217;s goal in the 18th minute, with SKN St. Polten forward Pak Kwang-Ryong doubling the lead just six minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 40 Hong Kong supporters made the journey to Pyongyang according to Offside HK editor Christie Leung, who provided English-language match coverage via translations of the Hong Kong Premier League&#8217;s play-by-play updates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FT. Norea Korea 2:0 Hong Kong. Here comes the end of HK&#39;s journey to UAE Asian Cup 2019. \ud83d\ude22Was an expected result but the early injury to Helio made it even more difficult for HK.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; christie L. (@christie_1122) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christie_1122\/status\/978579111189782528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The match was not broadcast live after Hong Kong broadcaster Now TV balked at the $127,000 fee requested by the North Korean Football Association, according to the\u00a0<em>South China Morning Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The win ensures that head coach Jorn Andersen&#8217;s men will finish second in Group B behind Lebanon, who are already through to the UAE-hosted main event with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>With a seed in Pot 4 likely, the reclusive nation will hope to improve on their 2011 and 2015 Asian Cup campaigns, both of which ended without a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea became the 22nd nation to qualify for next January&#8217;s AFC Asian Cup on Tuesday night with an emphatic 2-0 win over Hong Kong at Pyongyang&#8217;s\u00a0Kim Il-Sung Stadium. The hosts took the lead through Luzern striker Jong Il-Gwan&#8217;s goal in the 18th minute, with SKN St. Polten forward Pak Kwang-Ryong doubling the lead just six minutes later. Roughly 40 Hong Kong supporters made the journey to Pyongyang according to Offside HK editor Christie Leung, who provided English-language match coverage via translations of the Hong Kong Premier League&#8217;s play-by-play updates. The match was not broadcast live after Hong Kong broadcaster Now TV balked at the $127,000 fee requested by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/27\/north-korea-clinch-2019-asian-cup-appearance\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;North Korea clinch third straight Asian Cup appearance&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,30],"tags":[1146,109,1352,446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}