{"id":828778,"date":"2026-07-27T07:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:52:14","slug":"north-korea-to-face-off-against-south-in-soccer-rematch-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828778\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea to face off against South in soccer rematch at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer players from both Koreas are scheduled to face off against each other in the upcoming Asian Games in September, four months after a Pyongyang-based women\u2019s team defeated their South Korean counterparts before going on to win the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organizing Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/aichi-nagoya2026.org\/en\/news\/detail\/1413\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Thursday the group draw results, which assigned North Korea, South Korea, Bangladesh and Myanmar to Group F.<\/p>\n<p>North and South Korea will face off at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka, Japan, on Sept. 21, according to Seoul\u2019s Korean Football Association (<a href=\"https:\/\/kfa.or.kr\/layer_popup\/popup_live.php?act=news_tv_detail&amp;idx=28146&amp;div_code=news&amp;check_url=bGF5ZXI=&amp;lang=KOR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KFA<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s soccer teams were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soccer players from both Koreas are scheduled to face off against each other in the upcoming Asian Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,569,240649,561,82],"class_list":["post-828778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-inter-korean","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828778","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=828778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}