{"id":23738,"date":"2016-01-01T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23738"},"modified":"2016-01-01T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:02:20","slug":"azmoun-and-jahanbakhsh-to-miss-olympic-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/01\/azmoun-and-jahanbakhsh-to-miss-olympic-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Azmoun and Jahanbakhsh to miss Olympic qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian Olympic football team will be without its two stars Sardar Azmoun and Alireza Jahanbakhsh in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship in Qatar. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Azmoun is currently playing for FC Rostov in the Russian Premier League while Jahanbaksh is a key member of AZ Alkmaar in Eredivisie. <\/p>\n<p>As the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship will not be held in FIFA days AZ Alkmaar and FC Rostov officials didn\u2019t allow their Iranian players to accompany Iran Olympic team in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>The AFC U-23 Championship acts as the AFC qualifier for the Olympic football tournament. The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics men&#8217;s football tournament in Brazil as the AFC representatives. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament which will be held in Qatar from January 12 to 30. <\/p>\n<p>Iran has been grouped with host Qatar, China and Syria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian Olympic football team will be without its two stars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":4276,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23738","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}