{"id":11167,"date":"2022-01-23T20:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=184773"},"modified":"2022-01-23T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:28:58","slug":"india-chinese-taipei-asian-cup-match-gets-cancelled-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/india-chinese-taipei-asian-cup-match-gets-cancelled-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Chinese Taipei Asian Cup match gets cancelled due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s match against Chinese Taipei at the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup Group A got canceled minutes before kickoff after 12 players from the home team tested positive for coronavirus and two were down by injuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8OFFICIAL\ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WAC2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WAC2022<\/a> match between Chinese Taipei and \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 India will not be played today due to India's inability to field a minimum of 13 players!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sEBQ6hQ5P2\">https:\/\/t.co\/sEBQ6hQ5P2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #WAC2026 (@afcasiancup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afcasiancup\/status\/1485253188458528772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A top source of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has confirmed the development to PTI following which the AFC also issued a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC stated that following several positive cases of COVID-19, India has failed to name the minimum requirement of 13 players for the Group A match against Chinese Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>Group A match not taking explains the host chances of qualifying for the quarterfinals of the 12 nation premier continental showpiece are desolated.<\/p>\n<p>The match between India and Chinese Taipei was about to take place at the DY Patil Stadium in Maharastra.<\/p>\n<p>India was held to a goalless draw by Iran in their tournament\u2019s first match on January 20, Thursday and there were some COVID-19 cases in the team even prior to that game.<\/p>\n<p>In the Chinese Taipei\u2019s last match, they lost to China PR by 0-4 on January 20, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup India 2022 will be continued to play as per the schedule with the Group winners, runners-up, and the two best third-placed teams reaching the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and Chinese Taipei match got called off after 12 home team players were tested positive for COVID-19 at the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":33643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2988,1017],"class_list":["post-11167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-afc-womens-asian-cup-india-2022","tag-indian-football"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}