{"id":11969,"date":"2011-02-23T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/23\/iran-beats-kyrgyzstan-in-olympic-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T03:22:49","slug":"iran-beats-kyrgyzstan-in-olympic-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/23\/iran-beats-kyrgyzstan-in-olympic-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran beats Kyrgyzstan in Olympic qualifier [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"U23_2011_celebrating\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/U23_2011_celebrating.jpg\" height=\"284\" width=\"413\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Under-23 football team defeated Kyrgyzstan in the Olympics&#8217; Asian zone qualifier on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran beat Kyrgyzstan 1-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium. Bakhtiar Rahmani scored the Persians\u2019 sole goal from a free kick in the 34th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have won with more goals but our strikers didn\u2019t take advantage of their chances. We will win the second leg,\u201d Iran\u2019s caretaker Hooman Afazeli said in a post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has qualified for the Olympic Games in the past three times, in 1964, 1972 and 1976.<\/p>\n<p>All second leg matches have been scheduled for March 9, with the exception of the return fixture between Sri Lanka and the UAE which takes place two days later at the same venue as the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 winners will join the 13 highest ranked teams in the second round where they will again play in a home-and-away format on June 19 and June 23.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You can view the highlights of the game on youtube:<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PrrIvs_KiKs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PrrIvs_KiKs<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Under-23 football team defeated Kyrgyzstan in the Olympics&#8217; Asian zone qualifier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":7104,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969","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=11969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}