{"id":150179,"date":"2018-01-31T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150179"},"modified":"2018-01-31T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T07:22:19","slug":"negros-afc-champ-league-bid-ends-with-tianjin-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/31\/negros-afc-champ-league-bid-ends-with-tianjin-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Negros AFC Champ League bid ends with Tianjin loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150180\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Philippines_Football_League_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150180\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Philippines_Football_League_Logo.png\" alt=\"This is the Official Logo of the Philippines Football League (Wikimedia Commons, Fair use)\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the Official Logo of the Philippines Football League <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=53840683\">(Wikimedia Commons, Fair use)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Ceres Negros fell short of making history as the reigning Philippines Football League (PFL) champion bowed to Tianjin, 2-0, in the final round of the AFC Champions League qualifiers in China on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite showing heart all match-long, Negros saw Tianjin as a tough competition as the latter moves on to the Champions League group stages while sending the former to the AFC Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Modeste struck first for the home side in the 19th minute as he sent a header past Toni Doblas off a corner.<\/p>\n<p>Modeste then sealed it with 57th minute strike for the brace.<\/p>\n<p>Negros will join Burmese side Shan, which the club beat in the first round of the qualifiers, Singaporean team Home, and the winner of the playoff between Cambodia&#8217;s Boeung Ket and Laos&#8217; Lao Toyota in Group F of the AFC Cup group stages.<\/p>\n<p>Tianjin, on the other hand, will join Hong Kong squad Kitchee and Korean squad Jeonbuk in Group F of the Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014\u00a0Ceres Negros fell short of making history as the reigning Philippines Football League (PFL) champion bowed to Tianjin, 2-0, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":150180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[45358,38488],"class_list":["post-150179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afc-champions-league-qualifiers-in-china","tag-philippines-football-league-pfl","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}