2024-02-11 22:19:05
[골닷컴] Reporter Lee Jeong-bin = With the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Qatar Asian Cup successfully concluded, Gianni Infantino (53, Switzerland), President of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), praised the management of the tournament. President Infantino returned to Qatar following regarding a year to watch the Asian Cup finals and congratulated the Qatari national team for winning the championship.
President Infantino said through social network service (SNS) on the 11th (Korean time), “It was a fantastic final match watched at Lusail Stadium! “Congratulations to Jordan for their incredible performance once morest Qatar, the host country of the AFC Asian Cup,” he posted.
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The Qatar Asian Cup, which opened on the 13th of last month, ended with the victory of the host nation, Qatar, on the 11th of this month following a long run of regarding a month. Qatar defeated Jordan in the final, led by Akram Afif (20, Al Sadd)’s penalty kick hat-trick, and won the tournament for the second time in a row. President Infantino attended the final and watched the match with King Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (43, Qatar).
After the game, President Infantino came down to the stadium and held an awards ceremony with key personnel. After an amazing storm, he encouraged the Jordanian athletes who took second place and shared his joy with the Qatari athletes who created new history.
President Infantino said: “This match and the fantastic fans brought back incredible memories of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, a day when Asian football took center stage and showed the world its potential. We would like to thank the people of Qatar and everyone who helped make this a very successful event.”
Meanwhile, this tournament achieved unprecedented success, attracting more than 1.5 million spectators for the first time in the history of the Asian Cup. Although Korea, Japan, Iran, and Australia, the leading candidates for the championship, all failed to reach the finals, the emergence of emerging powers such as Jordan and Tajikistan boosted the enthusiasm of the competition. In addition, the introduction of semi-automatic offside reading technology (SAOT) allowed the game to proceed more smoothly and raised the level of the competition.
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