{"id":12793,"date":"2012-03-09T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/09\/iran-draw-with-south-korea-uzbekistan\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:53:33","slug":"iran-draw-with-south-korea-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/09\/iran-draw-with-south-korea-uzbekistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran drawn with South Korea, Uzbekistan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"IRN-KOR-Karimi\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/draws\/2012\/fwc\/final_round\/fwc2014_finaldraw_groups_3x2.jpg\" height=\"252\" width=\"406\" \/>PFDC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran were put in a strong group but yet have a feasible task ahead of them, having been drawn with Korea Republic, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Lebanon in Group A for the fourth and final stage of Asian World Cup qualifiers.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Australia, Japan, Iraq, Jordan and Oman were put into Group B by Iranian legend Mehdi Mahdavikia and former Japanese star defender Tsunyasu Miyamoto during the draw in the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The top two of each group will directly qualify for the 2014 Word Cup in Brazil, while the two third-placed teams will face each other in a two-legged playoff. The winner of the playoff will face a South American team in another two matches with the winner also qualifying for the finals. <\/p>\n<p>Below come the two groups:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A:<\/strong><br \/>Korea Republic<br \/>Iran<br \/>Uzbekistan<br \/>Qatar<br \/>Lebanon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B:<\/strong><br \/>Australia<br \/>Iraq<br \/>Jordan<br \/>Oman<br \/>Japan*<\/p>\n<p>* Japan were put into slot 5 of their group due to an otherwise overlap of schedules with the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\/?p=1665\">video of the Asian World Cup qualifying draw from <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>PFDCTV<\/strong><\/span><\/a> below.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"guid=rEBxegY0&amp;isDynamicSeeking=true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"direct\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/s0.videopress.com\/player.swf?v=1.03\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/s0.videopress.com\/player.swf?v=1.03\" flashvars=\"guid=rEBxegY0&amp;isDynamicSeeking=true\" wmode=\"direct\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran were put in a strong group but yet have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5274,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","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=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}