{"name": "AFC Asian Cup 1996",
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    "date": "1996-12-04",
    "team1": "United Arab Emirates",
    "team2": "South Korea",
    "score": [1, 1],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Khamees Saad Mubarak", "minute": "40"}],
    "goals2": [{"name": "Hwang Sun-hong", "minute": "9"}],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group A",
    "date": "1996-12-04",
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    "score": [2, 2],
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     [{"name": "Widodo Cahyono Putro", "minute": "20"},
      {"name": "Ronny Wabia", "minute": "40"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Hani Al Saqer", "minute": "73"},
      {"name": "Badr Haji", "minute": "84", "penalty": true}],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group A",
    "date": "1996-12-07",
    "team1": "United Arab Emirates",
    "team2": "Kuwait",
    "score": [3, 2],
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     [{"name": "Hassan Saeed Ahmed", "minute": "53"},
      {"name": "Adnan Al Talyani", "minute": "55"},
      {"name": "Saad Bakheet Mubarak", "minute": "80"}],
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     [{"name": "Jasem Al-Huwaidi", "minute": "9"},
      {"name": "Jasem Al-Huwaidi", "minute": "44"}],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group A",
    "date": "1996-12-07",
    "team1": "South Korea",
    "team2": "Indonesia",
    "score": [4, 2],
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     [{"name": "Kim Do-hoon", "minute": "5"},
      {"name": "Hwang Sun-hong", "minute": "7"},
      {"name": "Hwang Sun-hong", "minute": "15"},
      {"name": "Ko Jeong-woon", "minute": "55"}],
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     [{"name": "Ronny Wabia", "minute": "58"},
      {"name": "Widodo Cahyono Putro", "minute": "65"}],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group A",
    "date": "1996-12-10",
    "team1": "Kuwait",
    "team2": "South Korea",
    "score": [2, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Jasem Al-Huwaidi", "minute": "60"},
      {"name": "Bashar Abdullah", "minute": "87"}],
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    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group A",
    "date": "1996-12-10",
    "team1": "United Arab Emirates",
    "team2": "Indonesia",
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      {"name": "Adnan Al Talyani", "minute": "64"}],
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    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group B",
    "date": "1996-12-05",
    "team1": "Iran",
    "team2": "Iraq",
    "score": [1, 2],
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    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Hussam Fawzi", "minute": "37"},
      {"name": "Khalid Mohammed Sabbar", "minute": "69"}],
    "ground": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group B",
    "date": "1996-12-05",
    "team1": "Saudi Arabia",
    "team2": "Thailand",
    "score": [6, 0],
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     [{"name": "Khalid Al-Temawi", "minute": "10", "penalty": true},
      {"name": "Fahad Al-Mehallel", "minute": "15"},
      {"name": "Khaled Massad", "minute": "18"},
      {"name": "Khalid Al-Temawi", "minute": "29", "penalty": true},
      {"name": "Sami Al-Jaber", "minute": "52"},
      {"name": "Fahad Al-Mehallel", "minute": "54"}],
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    "ground": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group B",
    "date": "1996-12-08",
    "team1": "Thailand",
    "team2": "Iran",
    "score": [1, 3],
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    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Naeim Saadavi", "minute": "38"},
      {"name": "Mehrdad Minavand", "minute": "54"},
      {"name": "Ali Daei", "minute": "70"}],
    "ground": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group B",
    "date": "1996-12-08",
    "team1": "Saudi Arabia",
    "team2": "Iraq",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Fahad Al-Mehallel", "minute": "26"}],
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    "ground": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group B",
    "date": "1996-12-11",
    "team1": "Iraq",
    "team2": "Thailand",
    "score": [4, 1],
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      {"name": "Laith Hussein", "minute": "23"},
      {"name": "Haidar Mahmoud", "minute": "50"},
      {"name": "Laith Hussein", "minute": "63"}],
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    "ground": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group B",
    "date": "1996-12-11",
    "team1": "Saudi Arabia",
    "team2": "Iran",
    "score": [0, 3],
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    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Ali Daei", "minute": "12"},
      {"name": "Karim Bagheri", "minute": "37"},
      {"name": "Khodadad Azizi", "minute": "47"}],
    "ground": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group C",
    "date": "1996-12-06",
    "team1": "Japan",
    "team2": "Syria",
    "score": [2, 1],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Hassan Abbas", "minute": "85", "owngoal": true},
      {"name": "Takuya Takagi", "minute": "88"}],
    "goals2": [{"name": "Nader Joukhadar", "minute": "8"}],
    "ground": "Al Ain, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group C",
    "date": "1996-12-06",
    "team1": "China PR",
    "team2": "Uzbekistan",
    "score": [0, 2],
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    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Igor Shkvyrin", "minute": "78"},
      {"name": "Oleg Shatskikh", "minute": "90"}],
    "ground": "Al Ain, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group C",
    "date": "1996-12-09",
    "team1": "Syria",
    "team2": "China PR",
    "score": [0, 3],
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    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Ma Mingyu", "minute": "35"},
      {"name": "Gao Feng", "minute": "49"},
      {"name": "Li Bing", "minute": "73"}],
    "ground": "Al Ain, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group C",
    "date": "1996-12-09",
    "team1": "Japan",
    "team2": "Uzbekistan",
    "score": [4, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Hiroshi Nanami", "minute": "7"},
      {"name": "Kazuyoshi Miura", "minute": "37"},
      {"name": "Masakiyo Maezono", "minute": "86"},
      {"name": "Masakiyo Maezono", "minute": "90"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Al Ain, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group C",
    "date": "1996-12-12",
    "team1": "Japan",
    "team2": "China PR",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Naoki Soma", "minute": "90"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Al Ain, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Group C",
    "date": "1996-12-12",
    "team1": "Uzbekistan",
    "team2": "Syria",
    "score": [1, 2],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Sergey Lebedev", "minute": "53", "penalty": true}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Nader Joukhadar", "minute": "48"},
      {"name": "Ali Cheikh Dib", "minute": "74"}],
    "ground": "Al Ain, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Quarter-final",
    "date": "1996-12-15",
    "team1": "Kuwait",
    "team2": "Japan",
    "score": [2, 0],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Jasem Al-Huwaidi", "minute": "17"},
      {"name": "Jasem Al-Huwaidi", "minute": "54"}],
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    "ground": "Al Ain, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Quarter-final",
    "date": "1996-12-15",
    "team1": "United Arab Emirates",
    "team2": "Iraq",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Abdulrahman Ibrahim", "minute": "103"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Quarter-final",
    "date": "1996-12-16",
    "team1": "South Korea",
    "team2": "Iran",
    "score": [2, 6],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Kim Do-hoon", "minute": "11"},
      {"name": "Shin Tae-Yong", "minute": "35"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Karim Bagheri", "minute": "31"},
      {"name": "Khodadad Azizi", "minute": "52"},
      {"name": "Ali Daei", "minute": "66"},
      {"name": "Ali Daei", "minute": "76"},
      {"name": "Ali Daei", "minute": "83"},
      {"name": "Ali Daei", "minute": "89", "penalty": true}],
    "ground": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Quarter-final",
    "date": "1996-12-16",
    "team1": "Saudi Arabia",
    "team2": "China PR",
    "score": [4, 3],
    "goals1": 
     [{"name": "Yousuf Al-Thunayan", "minute": "31"},
      {"name": "Sami Al-Jaber", "minute": "34"},
      {"name": "Fahad Al-Mehallel", "minute": "43"},
      {"name": "Yousuf Al-Thunayan", "minute": "65"}],
    "goals2": 
     [{"name": "Zhang Enhua", "minute": "6"},
      {"name": "Peng Weiguo", "minute": "16"},
      {"name": "Zhang Enhua", "minute": "89"}],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Semi-final",
    "date": "1996-12-19",
    "team1": "Iran",
    "team2": "Saudi Arabia",
    "score": [0, 0],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Semi-final",
    "date": "1996-12-19",
    "team1": "United Arab Emirates",
    "team2": "Kuwait",
    "score": [1, 0],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Hassan Saeed Ahmed", "minute": "69"}],
    "goals2": [],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Third place playoff",
    "date": "1996-12-21",
    "team1": "Iran",
    "team2": "Kuwait",
    "score": [1, 1],
    "goals1": [{"name": "Ali Daei", "minute": "40"}],
    "goals2": [{"name": "Jasem Al-Huwaidi", "minute": "15"}],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"},
   {"round": "Final",
    "date": "1996-12-21",
    "team1": "United Arab Emirates",
    "team2": "Saudi Arabia",
    "score": [0, 0],
    "ground": "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"}]}