{"id":4171,"date":"2023-12-15T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/soccers-leading-lights-discuss-visions-for-future-of-the-sport-at-world-football-summit-asia\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T00:15:09","slug":"soccers-leading-lights-discuss-visions-for-future-of-the-sport-at-world-football-summit-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/soccers-leading-lights-discuss-visions-for-future-of-the-sport-at-world-football-summit-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer\u2019s leading lights discuss visions for future of the sport at World Football Summit Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nIt does not get much bigger than this for Arab football fans as well as those in Asia and Africa. Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia take on Egypt\u2019s Al-Ahly in Jeddah on Friday. The prize for the winner is a FIFA Club World Cup semifinal against Fluminense of Brazil and a lot more besides as two of the biggest Arab clubs meet on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>\nAny Saudi Arabia and Egyptian clash, the two major powers of the region, as well as Asia and Africa in a competitive setting, is special \u2014 though Asia has a better head-to-head record at the World Cup, winning 12 of 19 meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the one hand,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2426061\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It does not get much bigger than this for Arab football fans as well as those in Asia and Africa. Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia take on Egypt\u2019s Al-Ahly in Jeddah on Friday. The prize for the winner is a FIFA Club World Cup semifinal against Fluminense of Brazil and a lot more besides as two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"category-sports-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}