{"id":616021,"date":"2026-04-20T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:57:08","slug":"north-koreas-soccer-team-loses-to-nemesis-japan-in-u-20-womens-asian-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616021\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s soccer team loses to nemesis Japan in U-20 Women\u2019s Asian Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea lost to rival Japan in the U-20 Women\u2019s Asian Cup soccer tournament finals on Saturday, bringing an end to a string of triumphs at the youth level from the past two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/the-afc.com\/en\/national\/afc_u20_womens_asian_cup.html\/news\/japan-edge-dpr-korea-to-lift-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">close encounter<\/a> at Thailand\u2019s Thammasat Stadium, Japan edged out the DPRK thanks to a second-half goal by midfielder Momoka Sano \u2014 the only goal North Korea conceded in the entire 18-day competition.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea was unable to find a way past a resolute Japanese side despite dominating ball possession and peppering their opponents\u2019 goal with 17 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s victory on Saturday helped avenge its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korea lost to rival Japan in the U-20 Women\u2019s Asian Cup soccer tournament finals on Saturday, bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,569,184840,561,82],"class_list":["post-616021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-foreign-relations","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}