{"id":36045,"date":"2024-05-12T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36045"},"modified":"2024-05-12T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:42:28","slug":"sa-gardens-wapda-face-off-in-national-challenge-cup-final-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/sa-gardens-wapda-face-off-in-national-challenge-cup-final-today\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Gardens, Wapda face-off in National Challenge Cup final today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: SA Gardens and Wapda will face each other today in the final of the National Challenge Cup at the Jinnah Stadium at 8:30pm in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>In the first semifinal, SA Gardens held their nerve and defeated the Higher Education Commission (HEC) by 4-2 in a thrilling penalty shootout, confirming their maiden entry in the National Challenge Cup final.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the second semi-final, Wapda showed their championship grit against the Pakistan Army defeating them by 2-0, with Ahmed Fahim scoring the first goal from a free kick in the 58th minute and Shayek Dost scoring the second goal in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/punjab-govt-announces-cash-reward-for-national-hockey-team\/\">Punjab govt announces cash reward for national hockey team<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wapda will defend their National Challenge Cup 2020 title with key players like Ahmed Faheem, Alamgir Ghazi, Rao Umer Hayat, Hassan Ali, and Shayek Dost in peak form.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: SA Gardens and Wapda will face each other today in the final of the National Challenge Cup at the Jinnah Stadium at 8:30pm in Islamabad. In the first semifinal, SA Gardens held their nerve and defeated the Higher Education Commission (HEC) by 4-2 in a thrilling penalty shootout, confirming their maiden entry in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6135,16798,16799,16800],"class_list":["post-36045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan-football-federation","tag-national-challenge-cup","tag-pakistan-football","tag-sa-gardens-vs-wapda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}