{"id":13235,"date":"2012-10-31T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/31\/iran-looks-to-end-36-year-afc-u-19-title-drought\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T02:48:31","slug":"iran-looks-to-end-36-year-afc-u-19-title-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/31\/iran-looks-to-end-36-year-afc-u-19-title-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran looks to end 36-year AFC U-19 title drought"},"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>The Iran U-19 football team will leave Tehran on Thursday for the United Arab Emirates, looking to end a 36-year title drought at the Asian Championship.<\/strong><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 37th edition of the AFC U-19 Championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation will be held from November 1 to 17 in UAE.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The competition will bring 16 teams together, divided into four groups of four teams each.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran has been pooled with the UAE, Japan and Kuwait in Group A. The Persians will face Japan in their opening match on November 3 at the Emirates Club Stadium located in Ras al-Khaimah. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The four-time champion has yet to win the title in 36 years. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cFirst, we are going to qualify for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey. Then, we will do our best to win the championship,\u201d Iran coach Akbar Mohammadi said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI have no knowledge of Japan and it will be a difficult match. However, we take advantage of experienced players in our team and hopefully will advance to the next round,\u201d he added. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The competition\u2019s top four teams will qualify for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iran U-19 football team will leave Tehran on Thursday for&#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-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3010,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","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=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/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=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}