{"id":268524,"date":"2025-08-06T00:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=268524"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:26:52","slug":"kipa-ajay-to-head-delegation-of-u-23-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/kipa-ajay-to-head-delegation-of-u-23-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Kipa Ajay to head delegation of\u00a0 U-23 national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 5 Aug:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh Football Association (APFA) secretary-general Kipa Ajay has been appointed as the head of delegation of the Indian U-23 men&#8217;s national team for the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2026 qualifiers, scheduled to take place in Qatar from 1-11 September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This prestigious appointment marks a significant milestone for football in Arunachal Pradesh and stands as a testament to Ajay&#8217;s relentless commitment, visionary leadership, and substantial contribution to the growth of the sport at both state and national levels,&#8221; the APFA stated in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 5 Aug: Arunachal Pradesh Football Association (APFA) secretary-general Kipa Ajay has been appointed as the head of delegation of the Indian U-23 men&#8217;s national team for the AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2026 qualifiers, scheduled to take place in Qatar from 1-11 September. &#8220;This prestigious appointment marks a significant milestone for football in Arunachal Pradesh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}