{"id":38871,"date":"2020-03-05T16:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38871"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:42:52","slug":"afc-world-cup-qualifiers-face-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/03\/05\/afc-world-cup-qualifiers-face-postponement\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC World Cup qualifiers face postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,  <strong>FIFA and the Asian  Football Confederation (AFC) met at the Home of FIFA to discuss football  activities in Asia and considered to postpone upcoming World Cup  qualifiers over the novel coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For\n both FIFA and the AFC, the well-being and health of all individuals \ninvolved in football matches remains the highest priority, and as such, a\n formal proposal to postpone upcoming matches in the Asian FIFA World \nCup 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023 qualifiers will now be shared with the \nrelevant member associations,&#8221; the FIFA statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;FIFA and the AFC will provide an update \non these fixtures in the coming days following consultation with the AFC\n member associations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The women&#8217;s Olympic playoff between China \nand South Korea, both hard-hit by the virus, is also up for discussion, \nas well as the AFC Futsal Championship in Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia&#8217;s next qualifiers for the 2022 World \nCup and 2023 Asian Cup are scheduled for March 26 and 31. The women&#8217;s \nOlympic playoff, already postponed once, is set for April 9 and 14 and \nthe futsal championship is due to start on February 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA will continue to monitor the \nsituation in relation to COVID-19 in cooperation with the World Health \nOrganization (WHO), the confederations and the member associations. \nInformation on other international matches may be provided by the \nrelevant confederation or member association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) met at the Home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1400,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38871","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38873,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38871\/revisions\/38873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}