{"id":12926,"date":"2012-05-11T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/11\/u16-drawn-with-kuwait-yemen-and-laos\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:58:59","slug":"u16-drawn-with-kuwait-yemen-and-laos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/11\/u16-drawn-with-kuwait-yemen-and-laos\/","title":{"rendered":"U16 drawn with Kuwait, Yemen and Laos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"iriff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/iriff.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"215\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran has been drawn in Group A of the AFC U16 Championship, which will be held in Tehran from September 22 to October 6.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 2008 winner Iran will face eighth-ranked Kuwait, 2002 runner-up Yemen, and Laos in Group A. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIt is true that we are happy with the draw result,\u201d said Iran coach Parhizkar during an interview after the draw.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cBut we have to remember that all the teams in this tournament qualified from a hard competition. It means that every team is strong enough and the gaps between the teams are not really big. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cSo we have to be very careful even if we play underdog,\u201d added Parhizkar<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Australia has been placed with Iraq, Oman and Thailand in Group B. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>In Group C, defending champion DPR Korea will face Korea Republic, Saudi Arabia and Japan. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Group D is the battle front for last edition\u2019s runners-up Uzbekistan and Syria who came fourth in 2006 and bottom-ranked India and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran has been drawn in Group A of the AFC U16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2366,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926","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=12926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}