{"id":19191,"date":"2014-09-07T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19191"},"modified":"2014-09-09T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:31:08","slug":"iran-defeats-qatar-in-afc-u-16-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/07\/iran-defeats-qatar-in-afc-u-16-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defeats Qatar in AFC U-16 Championship [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>The Iranian football team defeated Qatar 3-2 on Sunday in a highly-entertaining Group D opener of the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship at Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hassan Ahmad opened Iran\u2019s goal just after four minutes but Reza Karimi levelled the match in the 22nd minute.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/images\/stories\/edim\/09-1%2860%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reza Shekari put the Iranian team ahead in the 48th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad did level the scores in the 59th minute, but 2008 champion Iran quickly responded through Shekari&#8217;s second to claim all three points despite the dismissal of defender Nima Daghestani with 20 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first match in any tournament is important. In the first minutes we could not play well and could not perform due to a lack of concentration, but as time passed, we became the dominant team,\u201d Iran coach Mostafa Ghanbarpour, who must now turn his attentions to Tuesday&#8217;s meeting with Saudi Arabia, was quoted as saying by the-afc.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy shifting the positions of the players on the field we could score the second goal, and by increasing the pressure, we could score the third goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sending off of our central defender created a lot of pressure on us, but even though it was not a beautiful match, we were able to get the three points,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IR Iran vs Qatar: AFC U-16 Championship 2014\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8epUqD_glo?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>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 The Iranian football team defeated Qatar 3-2 on Sunday in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,137,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u16","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4003,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19191","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}