{"id":76082,"date":"2019-12-10T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76082"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:59:23","slug":"indian-womens-football-team-clinches-third-successive-sag-gold-beats-nepal-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indian-womens-football-team-clinches-third-successive-sag-gold-beats-nepal-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian women&#8217;s football team clinches third successive SAG gold, beats Nepal 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian women&#8217;s football team won its third consecutive gold medal at the South Asian Games after beating hosts Nepal 2-0 in the summit clash here on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bala Devi was the star of the show again as she struck a brace on either side of the half time to guide India to a comfortable victory over the home side in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India went on the offensive from the very start, as the likes of Sangita Basfore and Ratanbala Devi dominated proceedings from the middle of the park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India goalkeeper Aditi Chauhan, who has had a fantastic tournament by not conceding a single goal in five matches, turned provider when she found Bala, with a long ball upfield. The mercurial striker duly converted the chance to give India the lead in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India had another chance around the half-hour mark, when a Ranjana corner was headed down by captain Ashalata Devi towards Sandhiya, but the latter was flagged offside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aditi made a couple of impressive saves on either side of the half-time break to keep India in the lead. Head coach Maymol Rocky soon brought on Manisha in place of Sandhiya, and the move had instant impact.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian women&#8217;s football team won its third consecutive gold medal at the South Asian Games after beating hosts Nepal 2-0 in the summit clash here on Monday. Bala Devi was the star of the show again as she struck a brace on either side of the half time to guide India to a comfortable [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76084,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76082\/revisions\/76084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}