{"id":12935,"date":"2012-05-14T05:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/14\/iran-to-face-japan-in-afc-u19-championship\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T05:42:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:42:55","slug":"iran-to-face-japan-in-afc-u19-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/14\/iran-to-face-japan-in-afc-u19-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to face Japan in AFC U19 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/iran-u17-big.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"220\" alt=\"iran-u17-big\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran has been grouped with host the UAE, Japan and Kuwait in Group A of the AFC U-19 Championship 2012 in a draw held in Dubai on Sunday.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The championship, previously known as AFC Youth Championship, will take place in the UAE from November 3 to 17.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Korea Republic, China, Thailand and Iraq made up Group B while defending champions DPR Korea, who defeated Australia in the thrilling final 3-2 to win the title in 2010, are pooled against Vietnam, Jordan and Uzbekistan in Group C. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>2006 champion Saudi Arabia is in Group D alongside with Australia, Syria and Qatar. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>After the group stage on November 3-8, the top two teams from each group (eight teams in total) will qualify for the quarterfinals (November 11) and the four winners of the quarterfinals will play in the semi-finals (November 14) and the winners advance to the final (November 17).<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The top four teams of the championship will qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2013 which will be held in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DUBAI, Iran has been grouped with host the UAE, Japan and Kuwait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3572,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935","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=12935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}