{"id":17752,"date":"2014-04-06T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17752"},"modified":"2014-04-06T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T19:29:48","slug":"iran-grouped-with-saudi-arabia-at-afc-u-16-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/04\/06\/iran-grouped-with-saudi-arabia-at-afc-u-16-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran grouped with Saudi Arabia at AFC U-16 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>Iran has been drawn along with two-time champion Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Syria in Group D of the AFC U-16 Championship 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the draw took place in Bangkok, Thailand, the host was drawn in Group A with two-time winner Korea Republic, Oman, who won this championship in 1996 and 2000, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Last edition\u2019s runner up Japan, who won this title twice in 1994 and 2006, has been pitted against Australia, two-time champion China and Hong Kong in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Group C comprises of defending champion Uzbekistan, Kuwait, DPR Korea and Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 teams will participate in the competition, which will be played from September 6 to 20 in Bangkok, the top four teams will qualify for the FIFA U-17 World Cup to be played in Chile next year.<\/p>\n<p>Groups<\/p>\n<p>Group A: Thailand, Korea Republic, Oman, Malaysia<br \/>\nGroup B: Japan, Australia, China, Hong Kong<br \/>\nGroup C: Uzbekistan, Kuwait, DPR Korea, Nepal<br \/>\nGroup D: Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BANGKOK, Iran has been drawn along with two-time champion Saudi Arabia, Qatar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":3307,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752","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=17752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}