{"id":13140,"date":"2012-09-09T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/09\/09\/iran-take-top-honours-in-aff-event\/"},"modified":"2012-09-09T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:53:51","slug":"iran-take-top-honours-in-aff-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/09\/09\/iran-take-top-honours-in-aff-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran take top honours in AFF event"},"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\" \/>AFC &#8211; VIETNAM, <strong>Iran enjoyed a morale-boosting win ahead of November&#8217;s AFC U-19 Championship by claiming the AFF U19 Tournament in Vietnam with a 2-1 victory over Uzbekistan in Saturday&#8217;s final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran skipper Alireza Jahanbakhsh scored both his side&#8217;s goals, opening the scoring with barely a minute at the Thong Nhat Stadium gone and netted what transpired to be the decisive goal in the 23rd minute, four minutes after Igor Sergeev had headed home Uzbekistan&#8217;s equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>Australia finished third after hammering hosts Vietnam 4-0 for the second time in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>All four teams are taking part in the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship, which will be held from November 4 to 17, with Iran pooled with hosts UAE, Japan and Kuwait in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan and Vietnam have be drawn together in Group C alongside Jordan and reigning champions DPR Korea while Australia, who finished runners-up to the North Koreans after going down 3-2 in the 2010 final, are in Group D with 2006 champions Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; VIETNAM, Iran enjoyed a morale-boosting win ahead of November&#8217;s AFC U-19 Championship by&#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-13140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4609,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140","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=13140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/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=13140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}