{"id":11247,"date":"2010-05-23T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/23\/iran-drawn-in-tough-group-in-afc-u-16-championship\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:05:22","slug":"iran-drawn-in-tough-group-in-afc-u-16-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/23\/iran-drawn-in-tough-group-in-afc-u-16-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough draw for Iran in AFC U-16 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">MNA &#8211; <strong>Reigning champion Iran ended up in a tough group on Thursday in  the AFC U-16 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2009\/12\/496389_orig.jpg\" height=\"272\" width=\"419\" \/>Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran was drawn in Group B along with  Syria, North Korea and Oman in the competitions which will be held in  Tashkent, Uzbekistan from October 24 to November 7.<br \/>The Persian boys  are scheduled to play Oman in their opening on October 24 at the Jar  Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated South Korea 2-1 in the last edition final  game and won the title for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in  each group (eight teams in total) will qualify for the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>The  four semi-finalists will represent Asia at the FIFA U-17 World Cup next  year.<\/p>\n<p>The groupings are as follows:<br \/>Group A<br \/>A1.  Uzbekistan<br \/>A2. Tajikistan<br \/>A3. Jordan<br \/>A4. Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>Group  B<br \/>B1. Iran<br \/>B2. Syria<br \/>B3.N.Korea<br \/>B4. Oman<\/p>\n<p>Group C<br \/>C1.  Japan<br \/>C2. Australia<br \/>C3. Timor Leste<br \/>C4. Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Group D<br \/>D1.  UAE<br \/>D2. Iraq<br \/>D3. China<br \/>D4. Kuwait<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; Reigning champion Iran ended up in a tough group on Thursday in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3076,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}