{"id":13330,"date":"2012-12-15T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T03:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/12\/15\/iran-eliminated-from-waff-despite-win\/"},"modified":"2012-12-15T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T03:11:03","slug":"iran-eliminated-from-waff-despite-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/12\/15\/iran-eliminated-from-waff-despite-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran eliminated from WAFF despite win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Yaghoub_Karimi_TM_2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Yaghoub_Karimi_TM_2012.png\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, <strong>Iran defeated Yemen in the 2012 West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship on Saturday but the team failed to book a place in the semifinals round.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran defeated Yemen 2-1 in the match held at the Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium in Kuwait City.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Omid Nazari scored for Iran just four minutes before the break. His goal was cancelled out by Fuad in the 48th minute of first half. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran striker Yaghoub Karimi found the back of the net in the 53rd minute. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Bahrain defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0 and advanced to the semis. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran had been already held by Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in Group B.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship is an international tournament for selected West Asian countries. The competition takes places in Kuwait from December 8 to 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran &#8211; Yemen 2-1 (1-1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals:<\/strong><br \/>1-0 Omid Nazari (41&#8242;)<br \/>1-1 Fuad (45&#8217;+3)<br \/>2-1 Yaghoub Karimi (53&#8242; \/ assist by Ghasem Dehnavi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran:<\/strong> Lak &#8211; Esmailbeigi (46&#8242; Fakhreddini), Khanzadeh, Montazeri, Pouladi &#8211; Dehnavi, Nazari, Ebrahimi &#8211; Hassanzadeh (46&#8242; Sadeghian), Oladi, Y. Karimi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, Iran defeated Yemen in the 2012 West Asian Football Federation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4747,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330","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=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}