{"id":6452,"date":"2025-06-09T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2025-06-09T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:30:37","slug":"iraq-applies-to-host-asian-world-cup-qualifying-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=6452","title":{"rendered":"Iraq applies to host Asian World Cup qualifying group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>June 9, 2025: The Iraq Football Association (IFA) has submitted an official request to host one of the two groups in the fourth round of Asian qualifiers for next year\u2019s World Cup in North America.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraq will finish third or fourth in Group B in the third round, with 12 points ahead of their final match against Jordan in Amman on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe had sent a letter to International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) calling for the highest levels of transparency and fairness in the process of selecting the host country or countries for the fourth round of the Asian qualifiers,\u201d IFA said in a statement on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IFA has said it is fully prepared to assume all organisational, security and financial obligations associated with hosting matches, with support from the Iraqi government and state institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the fourth round of qualifying, the six teams who finished third and fourth in the third-stage groups will be divided into two groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 9, 2025: The Iraq Football Association (IFA) has submitted an official request to host one of the two groups in the fourth round of Asian qualifiers for next year\u2019s World Cup in North America. Iraq will finish third or fourth in Group B in the third round, with 12 points ahead of their final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}