{"id":11676,"date":"2010-11-23T18:17:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T02:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/23\/irans-u-23-fails-to-reach-asian-final\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T18:17:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T02:17:46","slug":"irans-u-23-fails-to-reach-asian-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/23\/irans-u-23-fails-to-reach-asian-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s U-23 fails to reach Asian final [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Iran's Jalal Hosseini (R) and goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati (C) watch the ball while competing against Kensuke Nagai (L) of Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20101123\/gholami20101123125726140.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"363\" \/>PTV &#8211; GUANGZHOU, <strong>Iran&#8217;s under-23 soccer  team has failed to reach the final match of the 2010 Asian Games after  losing 2-1 to Japan in the semifinal of the tournament.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>Iranian striker Arash Afshin opened the scoring for Iran on six minutes when he picked up a ball whipped in from the right. <\/p>\n<p>Kota Mizunuma drew Japan level seven minutes before the break and Kensuke Nagai grabbed the winner on 60 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian side, led by manager Gholamhossein Peyrovani, was  unfortunate that could not level the game after creating many  opportunities after Japan&#8217;s second goal.  <\/p>\n<p>Sixteen minutes from time, Karim Ansarifard put the ball into the net only to be judged offside. <\/p>\n<p>Several minutes later, Hamidreza Ali Asgari hit the post and had a  penalty appeal turned down, but Japan held on for a narrow victory. <\/p>\n<p>Peyrovani said that his side did not deserve to lose, adding that he  was content with the players&#8217; performance, but some mistakes by Iran&#8217;s  defenders led to the defeat. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not the end of our team&#8217;s job and we should get ready for bigger and harder events,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Four-time champion Iran won the competition in 1974, 1990, 1998 and  2002 but missed the title in the 2006 Asian Games in Doha when Qatar  claimed the title.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Match highlights<\/span>:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=66aOfeCYQYk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=66aOfeCYQYk<\/a><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; GUANGZHOU, Iran&#8217;s under-23 soccer team has failed to reach the final match of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4594,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}