{"id":12039,"date":"2011-03-30T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/30\/iraq-iran-clash-highlight-of-olympics-round-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:09:53","slug":"iraq-iran-clash-highlight-of-olympics-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/30\/iraq-iran-clash-highlight-of-olympics-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq-Iran clash highlight of Olympics Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"olympic2012_draw_3x2\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/draws\/2011\/olympic2012_draw_3x2.jpg\" height=\"292\" width=\"438\" \/>AFC &#8211; Kuala  Lumpur, <strong>The second round draw for the 2012 London Olympics men\u2019s  football tournament threw up some interesting battles with arch-rivals  Iraq and Iran pitted against each other on Wednesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eleven teams, who have qualified from Round 1, joined 13 direct  entrants into the second round. The teams will be divided into 12 groups  and will play home-and-away on June 19 and June 23.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq, who  stole the limelight by making it to the semi-finals of the 2004 Athens  Olympics under Adnan Hamad, are aiming to play in the Olympics for the  fifth time after 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Their archrivals Iran  reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 Montreal Olympics and also  qualified for the next edition in Moscow but did not take part in the  finals. They are bidding to make it to the biggest sporting extravaganza  for the fifth time after 1964, 1972, 1976 and 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, who  have appeared eight times in the Olympics men\u2019s football tournament,  will host Kuwait in the first leg on June 19 before playing in Kuwait  City four days later.<\/p>\n<p>DPR Korea, who won both AFC U-19 and U-16  Championships last year, will meet UAE while Australia will face Yemen  in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Asia were allotted 3.5 slots for the 2012 London Olympics men\u2019s football tournament. <\/p>\n<p>The 12 winners from Round 2 will be divided into three groups of four teams each in the third round. <br \/>Again,  a home-and-away format from September 21, 2011, to March 14, 2012, will  determine the winners who will represent the continent in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Three  second-placed teams from the third round will clash in a playoff at a  centralised venue from March 25 to 29, 2012, and the winners of this  group will meet the representatives of CAF for a berth in the Olympics.<br \/><strong><br \/>2nd ROUND MATCH-UPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qatar vs India<br \/><strong>Iraq vs Iran<\/strong><br \/>Bahrain vs Thailand<br \/>Australia vs Yemen<br \/>Japan vs Kuwait<br \/>Syria vs Turkmenistan<br \/>DPR Korea vs UAE<br \/>Korea Republic vs Jordan<br \/>Uzbekistan vs Hong Kong<br \/>Saudi Arabia vs Vietnam<br \/>China vs Oman<br \/>Lebanon vs Malaysia<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, The second round draw for the 2012 London Olympics men\u2019s football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5148,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039","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=12039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}