{"id":11574,"date":"2010-10-11T20:47:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T03:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/11\/u-23-team-of-iran-loses-to-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T20:47:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T03:47:01","slug":"u-23-team-of-iran-loses-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/11\/u-23-team-of-iran-loses-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"U-23 team of Iran loses to South Africa [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"iran-u23\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iran-u23.jpg\" height=\"275\" width=\"423\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Under-23 football team was defeated by South Africa on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, who was held to a 1-1 draw against Poland on Saturday, lost to South Africa 2-0 at the Takhti Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have some key players in the match; nonetheless, I am satisfied with the way my team played. Iran played against Poland two days ago and didn\u2019t have enough time for recovery, but South Africa was completely ready to face us,\u201d Iran U-23 coach Gholamhossein Peyrovani said. <\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s team is gearing up for the 2010 Asian Games which will be held in Guangzhou, China from November 7 to December 25, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group B along with Vietnam, Bahrain and Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Full Highlights on <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>PFDCTV<\/strong><\/span>:<\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HVzYRoR_1wM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HVzYRoR_1wM<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Under-23 football team was defeated by South Africa on Monday. Iran,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3333,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}