{"id":351731,"date":"2026-03-22T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/351731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:38:09","slug":"japan-coach-hails-nadeshiko-character-after-asian-cup-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/351731\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan coach hails Nadeshiko character after Asian Cup triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      Sydney  \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Japan powered its way through five matches to get to the Women&#8217;s Asian Cup final but, according to coach Nils Nielsen, they were forced to show their adaptability and character to get past Australia and seal the title on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, which had scored 28 goals and conceded one on their way to \u200cthe title-decider, \u200ctook an early lead through Maika Hamano&#8217;s fine strike but were \u200bon the back foot for large parts of the second half as Australia looked for an equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Japan held on to disappoint the vast majority of the record \u2060crowd of 74,357 at Stadium Australia and confirmed its status as the Asian powerhouse with a third \u2060title in the last four editions of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney \u2013 Japan powered its way through five matches to get to the Women&#8217;s Asian Cup final but,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[972,42,43,40,38,41,39,4164],"class_list":{"0":"post-351731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}