{"id":18342,"date":"2023-08-04T18:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18342"},"modified":"2023-08-04T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:35:49","slug":"pakistan-street-child-football-team-book-spot-in-semi-finals-of-norway-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-street-child-football-team-book-spot-in-semi-finals-of-norway-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan street child football team book spot in semi-finals of Norway Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Street Child Football team booked their spot in the semi-finals of the ongoing Norway Cup after they defeated Sandviken on Friday in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Shirts scored two goals against the opponents who failed to score a single goal. Both goals were scored by Faisal for the winning side.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan have registered six wins in a row during the tournament so far.<\/p>\n<p>The team will play the semi-final, later today, against the winner of the clash between Bremnes and Charlottenlund Sportsklubb.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan beat Trsyil FK 4-0 in the pre-quarter-final yesterday to secure their place in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador of Pakistan to Norway, Saadia Altaf Qazi, also met the Pakistan team on Tuesday. She lauded the team&#8217;s performance in the tournament, so far, on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is participating in the Norway Cup under the banner of Muslim Hands, a charity organization, and thus is playing under the name of Muslim Hands FC.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/india-allows-pakistan-football-teams-participation-in-saff-cup.html\">India allows Pakistan football team&#8217;s participation in SAFF Cup<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A total of 2,350 teams and about 30,000 players are participating in the tournament across different competitions.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted here that the Pakistan team finished runners-up in the Street Child World Cup in Doha last year. They remained unbeaten throughout the tournament but lost the final against Egypt on penalties (4-3).<\/p>\n<p>They were also the runners-up in the previous edition in Russia (2018), meanwhile, in Brazil (2014) they finished third.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s squad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tufail Shinwari (c), Saud Ahmed, Asad Nasir, Abid Ali, Faisal Ahmad, Mohammad Ali, Ahmad Raza, Abdul Wahab, Shahmir, Sahil Gull, Mohammad Adeel, Abdullah, Ubaid Ullah, Ali Asif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Street Child Football team booked their spot in the semi-finals of the ongoing Norway Cup after they defeated Sandviken on Friday in Oslo. The Green Shirts scored two goals against the opponents who failed to score a single goal. Both goals were scored by Faisal for the winning side. Pakistan have registered six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[512,356],"class_list":["post-18342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-doha","tag-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}