{"id":49503,"date":"2019-12-08T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49503"},"modified":"2019-12-08T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:23:00","slug":"bahrain-wins-gulf-cup-for-first-time-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bahrain-wins-gulf-cup-for-first-time-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Wins Gulf Cup For First Time in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-49504\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bahrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"452\" \/>Bahrain has won its maiden Arabian Gulf Cup after defeating Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the final in the Qatari capital, Doha. Bahrain\u2019s Mohammed al-Rumaihi scored the Sunday final\u2019s only goal in the 69th minute of the match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi Arabian team has a distinguished record in its confrontations against the Bahraini national team, as they have met in 35 games in all official and friendly competitions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia has won 19 matches, lost seven times and tied on nine other occasions against Bahrain.<br \/>\nBahrain had sent 11 commercial airplanes filled with nearly 2,000 fans from the island Kingdom to support the national team on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bahraini win is significant for the national team as they became Arabian Gulf Cup champions for the first time since the tournament started 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bahrain-wins-gulf-cup-for-first-time-in-history\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain has won its maiden Arabian Gulf Cup after defeating Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the final in the Qatari capital, Doha. Bahrain\u2019s Mohammed al-Rumaihi scored the Sunday final\u2019s only goal in the 69th minute of the match. The Saudi Arabian team has a distinguished record in its confrontations against the Bahraini national team, as they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49505,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49503\/revisions\/49505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}