{"id":60,"date":"2002-05-30T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-30T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-12-13T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:52:51","slug":"from-the-heart-of-football-to-the-seoul-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/05\/30\/from-the-heart-of-football-to-the-seoul-of-football\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Heart of Football to the Seoul of Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/korea\/seoul\/fifa_shop\/welcome_sign.jpg\" alt=\"Seoul welcomes the World\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nSeoul welcomes the World, and we welcome Seoul<\/p>\n<p>After 7000 miles of being kicked and kissed across Europe and Asia, our Olympic Torch of a ball has made it. With one day to spare&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Official FIFA Shop\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qpDYIzAduew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Our first stop in Seoul as we step off the bus and get our bearings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/the-official-fifa-shop\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the official souvenir shop at Seoul&#8217;s central railway station, we found a huge ball full of signatures. We whipped on our own autographs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/korea\/seoul\/fifa_shop\/chris_signing.jpg\" alt=\"Chris signs the ball in the official souvenir shop in Seoul\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nChris signs the ball<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/korea\/seoul\/fifa_shop\/phil_signing.jpg\" alt=\"Phil signs the ball in the official souvenir shop in Seoul\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nPhil signs the ball<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World Cup balls\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKEglTi7Z7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>All The Ball&#8217;s predecessors since 1974.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/world-cup-balls\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;They think it&#8217;s all over&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cup has yet to start!<\/p>\n<p>Written by Phil and Chris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/korea\/seoul\/fifa_shop\/welcome_sign.jpg\" alt=\"Seoul welcomes the World\" style=\"width: 320px;height: 240px\" \/><br \/>\nSeoul welcomes the World, and we welcome Seoul<\/p>\n<p>After 7000 miles of being kicked and kissed across Europe and Asia, our Olympic Torch of a ball has made it. With one day to spare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korea"],"geo":{"latitude":37.56743999999999772398950881324708461761474609375,"longitude":126.9768906000000043832187657244503498077392578125,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}