{"id":9040,"date":"2012-08-06T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T10:44:48","slug":"nehru-cup-india-to-take-on-syria-in-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9040","title":{"rendered":"Nehru Cup: India to take on Syria in opening match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/india_nehru_cup.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nehru Cup: India to take on Syria in opening match\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: Defending Champions India have been drawn to play Syria in the Opener of the Nehru Cup which kicks-off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on August 22, 2012. The final is slated to be played on September 2, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the hosts, Cameroon, Syria, Nepal and Maldives make up the five-team group. Each Team will play each other once in the Group League matches with the top two, the Group Winners and the Group <br \/>Runners-up advancing to the final.<br \/>\n<br \/>India had won the last two editions of the Nehru Cup in 2007 and beating Syria in the final on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian squad is presently undergoing their preparatory camp at the KSFA Stadium in Bangalore and is likely relocate to Jaypee Greens, Greater Noida in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports Sports News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/india_nehru_cup.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Nehru Cup: India to take on Syria in opening match\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: Defending Champions India have been drawn to play Syria in the Opener of the Nehru Cup which kicks-off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on August 22, 2012. The final is slated to be played on September 2, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the hosts, Cameroon, Syria, Nepal and Maldives make up the five-team group. Each Team will play each other once in the Group League matches with the top two, the Group Winners and the Group <br \/>Runners-up advancing to the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nehru Cup: India to take on Syria in opening match - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=9040\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nehru Cup: India to take on Syria in opening match - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Defending Champions India have been drawn to play Syria in the Opener of the Nehru Cup which kicks-off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on August 22, 2012. 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