{"id":17023,"date":"2014-01-16T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17023"},"modified":"2014-01-16T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:18:52","slug":"kaveh-rezaei-hattrick-sinks-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/16\/kaveh-rezaei-hattrick-sinks-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaveh Rezaei hattrick sinks Kuwait [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; MUSCAT, <strong>Iran concluded the first ever chaotic u-22 Asian Cup with a well deserved 3-1 win over Kuwait, in the end finishing third in the group due to group winners Australia&#8217;s embarassing 0-4 thrashing in the hands of Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kaveh Rezaei, the only regular offensive player available to coach Human Afazeli, scored a hattrick before Kuwait added a late consolidation. The win would have been enough if Australia would have at least held Japan to a draw.<\/p>\n<p>But the Soceroos, often the first to complain about lack of fairplay in the AFC, also didn&#8217;t live up to FIFA&#8217;s codex, going down against a Japanese side that had struggled to a goalless draw against Kuwait and being all but the better side in an entertaining 3-3 draw versus Iran.<\/p>\n<p>However, the three goals increased Saipa Karaj striker Rezaei&#8217;s goal tally to five after his brace versus Japan on the opening day and not only make him top the goalscorer&#8217;s chart of the tourney so far, but also frustrates the Iranian fans over the once more laughable scheduling from AFC.<\/p>\n<p>The extremely odd timing of the tournament outside the FIFA schedule and in a phase any World Cup participant couldn&#8217;t afford to halt the domestic league had kept high profile players Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Sardar Azmoun, Payam Sadeghian, Mohsen Mosalman, Omid Alishah, Yaghoub Karimi, Milad Gharibi, Bakhtiar Rahmani and Mohammad-Reza Khanzadeh away from the tournament and had prompted Iran coach Alireza Mansourian to resign.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament had initially been scheduled to be held last summer, but was moved due to the local East Asian Football Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The next edition of the u-22 Asian Cup will take place in 12 months already and will serve as qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympic games.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes a video of the goals.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran Vs. Kuwait (AFC U-22 Championship 2014)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EgvR-i8M6ag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; MUSCAT, Iran concluded the first ever chaotic u-22 Asian Cup with a well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":4602,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023","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=17023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}