{"id":179621,"date":"2025-09-30T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:48:07","slug":"top-football-at-japan-cup-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179621\/","title":{"rendered":"Top football at Japan Cup 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did this year&#8217;s Japan Cup between Bar\u00e7a Academies attract a huge number of teams but it also showcased the high level of football in the country. The hosts Nara were joined by the schools in Katsushika, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Aichi and Hiroshima, while they also welcomed special guests Bar\u00e7a Academy Manila and a team from the Campus in Taipei as well as a local club, Crear FC.<\/p>\n<p>There were U9 and U11 categories, each with 12 teams competing.\u00a0Bar\u00e7a Academy Hiroshima claimed the U9 trophy, while it was Bar\u00e7a Academy Fukuoka who in the U11 competition. They were held over three days of sport and Bar\u00e7a in which exemplary sportsmanship was displayed throughout.<\/p>\n<p>\n            Previous<\/p>\n<p>            label.aria.chevronleft\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n            Next<\/p>\n<p>            label.aria.chevronright\n        <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only did this year&#8217;s Japan Cup between Bar\u00e7a Academies attract a huge number of teams but it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85,83],"class_list":["post-179621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}