{"id":311332,"date":"2023-04-19T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/19\/four-team-intercontinental-cup-to-be-held-in-bhubaneswar-between-june-9-18-football-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:01:00","slug":"four-team-intercontinental-cup-to-be-held-in-bhubaneswar-between-june-9-18-football-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/19\/four-team-intercontinental-cup-to-be-held-in-bhubaneswar-between-june-9-18-football-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-team Intercontinental Cup to be held in Bhubaneswar between June 9-18 | Football News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>NEW DELHI: The third edition of the <!-- -->Intercontinental Cup<!-- --> football tournament, which will have three other teams besides hosts India, will be held in Bhubaneswar between June 9 and 18.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lebanon\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Lebanon-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lebanon\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lebanon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mongolia\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Mongolia-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mongolia\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mongolia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vanuatu\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Vanuatu-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vanuatu\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vanuatu<\/a> are the other three teams taking part in the tournament.<br \/>Out of the four participating sides, Lebanon is the highest ranked in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/fifa\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-FIFA-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/fifa\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIFA<\/a> chart at 99, while India is at 101. Vanuatu (164) and Mongolia (183) are ranked lower than India.<br \/>India won the inaugural edition of the tournament held in Mumbai in 2018 but finished a disappointing fourth and last in the previous tournament in Ahmedabad in 2019.<\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component QbQNS undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1\" msid=\"99618283\" width=\"600\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/42706777.gif\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/imgsize-23456,msid-99618283,width-600,resizemode-4\/99618283.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The four-team Hero Intercontinental Cup will be played in the FIFA International Window from June 9 to 18, with hosts India being joined by Lebanon, Mongolia and Vanuatu in the tournament,&#8221; the All India Football Federation (<!-- -->AIFF<!-- -->) said in a release.<br \/>&#8220;Imphal had experienced the joy of international football in March, and now it&#8217;s Bhubaneswar&#8217;s turn to join the country&#8217;s growing map of international venues for men&#8217;s football,&#8221; Secretary General <!-- -->Shaji Prabhakaran<!-- --> said.<br \/>&#8220;Bhubaneswar was one of the venues of the FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup, and with that, we have seen some excellent infrastructure being developed by the Government of Odisha,&#8221; he said.<br \/>&#8220;It is a legacy that the U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup has left behind and has paved the path for the Senior Men&#8217;s National Team to now play in the city for the first time in its history.&#8221;<br \/>The Indian men&#8217;s national team had previously never played against Mongolia and Vanuatu. India had played against Lebanon six matches earlier.<br \/>The Blue Tigers are currently on a five-match unbeaten streak on home turf, a run that began on June 8 last year with a 2-0 win over Cambodia in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers Round 3 in Kolkata.<br \/>Since then, <!-- -->Igor Stimac<!-- -->&#8216;s men have defeated Afghanistan (2-1), Hong Kong (4-0) before wins over Myanmar (1-0) and Kyrgyz Republic (2-0) in Imphal in tri-nation tournament. <\/div>\n<p><script>if(typeof window !== 'undefined') {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadScriptsOnceAdsReady = () => {\n      var scripts = [\n      'https:\/\/static.clmbtech.com\/ad\/commons\/js\/2658\/toi\/colombia_v2.js',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/grxpushnotification_js\/minify-1,version-2.cms',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/locateservice_js\/minify-1,version-14.cms'\n    ];\n      scripts.forEach(function(url) {\n        let script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.type=\"text\/javascript\";\n        if(!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('colombia_v2')!== -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('sdkloader')!== -1) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && (url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk') !== -1 || url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') !== -1 || url.indexOf('locateservice_js') !== -1 )) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (url.indexOf('colombia_v2')== -1 && url.indexOf('sdkloader')== -1 && url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk')== -1 && url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') == -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        }\n        script.async = true;\n        script.defer = true;\n        document.body.appendChild(script);\n      });\n    }\n  }\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/football\/top-stories\/four-team-intercontinental-cup-to-be-held-in-bhubaneswar-between-june-9-18\/articleshow\/99618287.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The third edition of the Intercontinental Cup football tournament, which will have three other teams besides hosts India, will be held in Bhubaneswar between June 9 and 18.Lebanon, Mongolia and Vanuatu are the other three teams taking part in the tournament.Out of the four participating sides, Lebanon is the highest ranked in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[781,732,24560,378939,2977,74741,199651,378938],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}