{"id":3748,"date":"2024-01-29T03:17:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2024-01-29T03:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:17:56","slug":"debutants-tajikistan-no-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"Debutants Tajikistan: &#8220;No Limits&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>29 January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tajikistan, ranked 106th in the world and at their first Asian Cup, will now face either Jordan or Iraq in the quarter-final, after beating UAE on penalty kicks who reached the semi-finals at the last two Asian Cups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As their performances in the group stage meant there were less who were assuming it would be a straightforward outing for UAE on Sunday, Tajikistan had already proved all expectations by reaching the round of 16. Tajikistan&#8217;s coach Petar Segrt called his team &#8220;the black horses of the tournament&#8221; and said &#8220;nobody knows how far we can go&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3749\" style=\"width:835px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-1.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-1-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3750\" style=\"width:836px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 January 2024 Tajikistan, ranked 106th in the world and at their first Asian Cup, will now face<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}